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Fig. 912. ORYZOPSIS MELANOCARPA Muhl. Gram. 79. 1S17. BLACK 

 MOUNTAIN RICE.— A rather stout, long and broad-leafed perennial 3-9 dm. 

 (lo-3°j high, with narrow, .'simple panicles 15-20 cm. (G'-8') long, branches 

 spreading in flower, the lower ones in pairs and about 5 cm. (2') long, flower- 

 bearing above, naked below. Spikelets (o, b) few, 8-10 mm. (4"-5") long; empty 

 glumes about 7-nerved, acute, slightly exceeding the thinly pubescent and 

 coriaceous flowering glume (r); awn about 2i mm. (12") long.— Open, rocky 

 woods, sometimes on cliffs, Quebec and Ontario to Delaware, Kentucky, Mis- 

 souri, and Minnesota. 



