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Fig. 131. EPICAMPES lilGUIiATA Scribn. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3 : 58. 

 1892.— A stout, rigid perennial 6-12 dm. (2°-4°) high, with narrow, very sca- 

 brous leaves and strict, rather densely flowered panicles 20-40 cm. (8'-16') long. 

 Leaves long-attenuate-pointed, rigid, and subinvolute at the base, where they 

 are much narrower than the rigid ligule, which is 10-30 mm. (5"-15") long. 

 Spikelets (a, b) about 2 mm. (1") long, dark purple; glumes subequal, minutely 

 scabrous, the distinctly 3-nerved; flowering glume (c) mucronate-pointed by 

 the prolongation of the midnerve.— Cool slopes and canyons, mountains of 

 Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. (Mexico.) August, September. 



