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Fig. 115. ALOPECURUS GENICULATXJS L. Sp. PI. 60. 1758. FLOATING 

 FOXTAIL.— A slender perennial, with culm.s decumbent and branched at base, 

 then erect or ascending, 1.5-6 dm. (6'-24') high, flat, spreading leaves, and 

 dense, .spike-like, slender panicles 2.5-7.5 cm. (r-3') long. Spikelets (a, b) 

 about 2 mm. (1") long; empty glumes equal, obtuse, slightly connate at the 

 base, silky-hairy on the keels, and sparingly pilose on the sides; flowering 

 glume (c) a little shorter than the outer ones, awned from near the base; awn 

 slender, nearly twice as long as the glumes or in var. fulvus (Smith) Scribn. 

 Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5 : 38, 1894 {A. fulvus Smith) barely equaling them.— 

 Wet meadows, banks of streams and ditches throughout the United States, and 

 from Newfoundland to British Columbia. (Europe and Asia.) April to Sep- 

 tember. 



A valuable pasture grass for low, wet lands. 



