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Fig. 176. SPARTINA JUNCIFORMIS Engelm. ct Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. 5 : 238. 1845. (,S'. (k/mflom Brongn. (?) in Duperr. Voy. Coq. Bot. 14. 1829; 

 S. gouinl Fourn. Mex. PL 2:135. 1881.) RUSH-LIKE SPARTINA.— A stout 

 perennial 6-15 dm. (2°-.5°) high, with very long, narrow leaves and short, 

 appressed spikes, which form a cylindrical, spike-like inflorescence 10-30 cm. 

 (4'-12') long. Leaf-blades involute, rigid, those of the sterile shoots 3-G dm. 

 (l°-2°) long. Spikelets (o) 6-8 mm. (3"-4") long; empty glumes ciliate-hispid 

 on the keel, the first linear, obtuse or acute, the second truncate or emarginate; 

 flowering glume (6) slightly longer than the first glume. Palea narrowly 

 ovate, about as long as the glume. — Brackish marshes along the Gulf coast, 

 Key West, Florida to Texas. (Mexico and Chile?) June to October. 



