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Fig. 105. MUHLENBERGIA PORTERI Scribn. in Beal, Grasses N. A. 2 : 

 259. 1896. {31. tezana Thurb. in Coult. Man. Bot. Rocky Mt. Reg. 410. 1885. Not 

 Buckley, 1862.— A much-branched, native perennial, with slender, somewhat 

 wiry stems 3-6 dm. (l°-20) long, rather short, narrow leaves, and diffuse panicles 

 5-10 cm. (2'-4') long. Spikelets (a, h) about 3 mm. (IJ") long on widely spread- 

 ing capillary pedicels; empty glumes lanceolate, acute, slightly unequal, 

 about 2 mm. (1") long; flowering glume (c) thinly pubescent toward the base, 

 2-toothed at the apex; awn slender, 3-6 mm. {lk"-d>") long.— Dry mesas and 

 table-lands, Texas to Arizona, Nevada, and California. (Mexico.) August, 

 September. 



Valuable for grazing and for hay. 



