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Fig. 140. AGROSTIS EliljIOTTIANA Schult. Mant. 2 : 373. 1824. {A. amch- 

 noides Ell. Sk. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1 : 134. 1817, not Poir. 1810.) SPIDER 

 BENT-GRASS.— A low. branching annual with weak culms rarely exceeding 

 3 dm. (1°) in height, narrow flat leaves and diffuse, capillary panicles about 

 one-half as long as the culm. Spikelets 1.5-2 mm. (J"-l") long: empty glumes 

 (a) equal, one-fourth longer than the flowering glume (b. c). which is obtuse, 

 2-toothed, and bears a very slender, scabrous awn near the apex, five to .six 

 times its own length.— Dry hillsides and old fields. South Carolina to Kentucky 

 and Missouri, south to Florida and Texas. April, May. 



