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Fig 214 LEPTOCHXOA IMBRICATA Thurb. in S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 293. 

 1880 '(Diplarhne imhrirata Seribn. Bui. Torr. Bot. Club, 10 : 30. 1.S83. )-A rather 

 stout erect or a.'^cending perennial 3-9 dm. (l°-3°; high, with smooth, usually 

 glaucous culms, narrow, flat leaves, and numerous crowded, erect or ascending 

 spike« 4-6 cm (U'-2i') long. Spikelets (a, 5) 6-8 mm. (3"-4") long, 6 to 10 flow- 

 ered imbricate: emptv glumes (c) unequal, the first acute, the second obtuse, 

 mucronate, about 2 mm. d") long; flowering glumes {d,e) truncately obtuse 

 with two short, blunt teeth at the apex, the midnerve terminating m a short 

 mucro.-Texas to southern California. (Mexico and Lower Cahtomia.) Au- 

 gust to November. 



