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Fig. 81. PHALARIS ANGUSTA Nees, Agrost. Bras. 391. 1829. (P. intermedia 

 angustaChapm. Fl. So. U. S. 568. 1860. ) CALIFORNIA TIMOTHY.— A stout grass 

 6-14 dm. (20-4i°) high, with narrow, densely flowered, spike-like panicles 5-12 

 cm. (2'-5') long. Spikelets (a) 4 mm. (2") long; outer glumes winged on the 

 keel, abruptly acute; second pair of glumes linear, one-third as long as the 

 thinly pilose flowering glume (6).— In wet places, South Carolina and Louis- 

 iana to southern California. (South America.) May. 



Cultivated to a limited extent in the Southern States, and regarded by some 

 as an excellent grass for winter and spring grazing, but in California it is not 

 deemed of any agricultural value. 



