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Fig. 74. HOMAXiOCENCHRUS LENTICULARIS (Michx. ) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PI. 2 : 777. isyi. (Leersia IcnticiUaris Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 39. 1803. i CATCH- 

 FLY-GRASS.— A rather stout, branching perennial 6-12 dm. (2°-4°) high, with 

 broad and widely spreading leaves and diffuse panicles, 10-20 cm. (4'-8') long. 

 Spikelets broadly oval, 4-5 mm. (2"-2^") long and nearly as broad, closely im- 

 bricate (as shown at a), the glume and palea strongly bristly-ciliate along the 

 keels.— Marshes and wet thickets, near the coast, Virginia to Texas, and in 

 the Mississippi Valley from southern Illinois and Missouri to Louisiana. Au- 

 gust, to September. 



Of no agricultural value. 



