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Fig. 213. LEPTOCHLOA VISCIDA (Scribn.) Beal, Grasses N. A. 2:434. 

 1896. {Biplachne viscida Scribn. Bul.Torr. Bot. Club, 10 : 30. 1883.) VISCID 

 LEPTOCHLOA.— A densely ceespitose and diffusely branched perennial (?) 

 0.5-6 dm. (2'-24') high, with acute, flat leaves and narrow, densely flowered pani- 

 cles 5-8 cm. (2'-3') long, composed of eight to twelve erect spikes. Spikelets (a) 

 about 4 mm. (2") long, 4 to 6 flowered; empty glumes ovate, acute, hyaline, 2 

 mm. (1") long, scabrous on the single nerve, the second slightlv longer than 

 the first; flowering glumes (b,c) two-lobed, the lobes obtuse, bearing an awn 

 from the cleft 1 mm. (i") long.— Wet, clayey soil. New Mexico and Arizona. 

 (Mexico and Lower California.) June to September. 



