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Fig. 113. HELEOCHXOA SCHCENOIDES [L.) Host, Gram. 1 : 'I'd, pi. 80. 1801. 

 {Phleum schcenoidrs L. Sp. PI. 60. 1753; Cri/p>^is schcenoides Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 

 1 : 166, pi. 1^2. 1791.) RUSH-LIKE TIMOTHY.— A diffusely branching cgespitose 

 annual 1-3 dm. (4'-12') high, with inflated sheaths, rather short, flat, spreading 

 leaves and densely flowered, ovate, or oblong, spike-like panicles 1-3 cm. (s'-l^') 

 long. Spikelets (a) 3 mm. (li") long; empty glumes acute, compressed, ciliate 

 on the keels, nearly as long as the compressed flowering glume (&) which is 

 scabrous on the keel above. Panicles usually partly inclosed within the sub- 

 tending leaf-sheath.— Waste ground about New York City, Philadelphia, etc., 

 sparingly naturalized. (Europe and Asia.) July, August. 



