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Fig. 189. TRICHLORIS FASCICUIiATA Fourn. Mex. PI. 2:142. 1881. 

 {T. blanchanUatia Scribn. Bui. Torr. Bot. Club, 9 : 146. 1882.)— A rather stout 

 perennial 5-10 dm. (li°-30) high, with long, narrow leaves and many slender, 

 bearded spikes, which are fasciculate or subdigitate at the apex of the culm. 

 Sheaths compressed, ciliate-fringed, hispid; leaf-blades plane or involute, 

 acuminate, 8-20 cm. (3'-8') long. Spikelets linear-lanceolate with one fertile 

 and one sterile flower; empty glumes {a,b) awned; flowering glume ((f) scab- 

 rous on the back, obscurely 3-nerved, 2.-5 mm. (li") long, terminating in three 

 scabrous awns 10-18 mm. (.V'-9") long. At c the flowering glume is shown with 

 the inclosed palea and sterile floret.— Dry plains and mesas, Texas to Arizona. 

 May to September. 



This species has long been known to florists under the name of Chloropais 

 blanchardiana, and is esteemed as an ornamental grass. 



