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Fig 132 POLYPOGON MONSPELIENSIS (Linn.) Desf. Fl. Atl. 1: 67. 1798. 

 (Atopecurus mompdicms Linn. Sp. PI. 89. 17.53. ) BEARD GRASS.-A OEespitose, 

 glabrous annual 1-9 dm. (4'-3°) high, with flat leaves and dense, many-flowered 

 spike-like panicles 2-10 cm. (l'-4') long. Spikelets about 2 mm. (1") long, with 

 long-awned, nearly equal, scabrous outer glumes (ct) much exceeding the 

 broad, thin, and slender-awned flowering glume (b). The flower is shown at c 

 in the figure.— In fields and waste places, sparingly naturalized along the 

 Atlantic coast from New Hampshire to South Carolina; abundantly on the 

 Pacific slope from California to Vancouver Island, and in Arizona, Nevada, and 

 Colorado. (Europe and Asia.) April to October. 



