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Fig. 137. AGROSTIS DENSIFLORA Vasey, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3 : 72. 

 1892. DENSELY-FLOWERED BENT.-A rather stout, c^spitose perennial 

 1.5-4..5 dm. (6'-18') high, with short and comparatively broad leaves and densely, 

 many-flowered, almost spike-like panicles 3-8 cm. (I'-Si') long. Spikelets (a) 

 2.7 mm. (1^") long, with nearly equal, scabrous, acute, empty glumes and nar- 

 row, short-awned flowering glumes (6, c), which are about one-fourth shorter 

 than the empty ones. The grain is shown at e and two anthers at rf.— Oregon 

 and California, along the coast, apparently rare. July, August. 



