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Fig. 192. GYMNOPOGON BREVTFOL>I"Crs Trin. Unifl. 238. 1824. SHORT- 

 LEAFED BEARD-GRASS.— A slender, loosely tufted and many-jointed peren- 

 nial, with erect or ascending culms 3-6 dm. {l°-2°) high, short, flat leaves and 

 numerous very slender .spikes, which are naked toward the ba.se. Sheaths 

 shorter than the internodes, often crowded near the middle of the culm; ligule 

 very short; leaf-blades 2-5 cm. (l'-2') long, 2-8 mm. (l"-4") wide, lanceolate, 

 acute, cordate at the base. Branches of the panicle at first erect, finally wide- 

 spreading. Spikelets (c) exclusive of awns 3 mm. (1^") long; floweringglume(6) 

 equaling the second glume, short-awned, sparingly villous or glabroas. Callus 

 hairy.— Dry or moist pine barrens near the coast, New Jersey to Mississippi. 

 August to November. 



