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Fig. 220. BUI.BILIS DACTYLOIDES (Nutt.) Raf. Amer. Month. Mag. 4 : 190. 

 1819 (Srdrria <lart,/Ioi<1rs ^utt. Gen. 1:65. 1S18: BucMoc dacfyloides Engelm. 

 Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1:432. t. U. 1859.) BUFFALO-GRASS.-A low, fine- 

 leafed, and extensively creeping perennial, rarely more than 1-1.5 dm. (4'-6') 

 high: staminate spikes {b, h' ) 2 or 3, approximate; spikelets (/■) 4-5 mm. (2"-2i") 

 long, 2 to 3 flowered, the empty glumes 1-nerved. the flowering glumes 3-nerved; 

 pistillate spikelets (a') ovoid, the outer glume indurated. Similar to Bermuda 

 grass in habit of growth.— Drv prairies and river bottoms, Minnesota and South 

 Dakota (ascends to 1,0.50 m. (4,950°) in Black Hills), to Arkansas, southern 

 Texas, and Colorado. (Mexico.) March to August. 



This species is the true buffalo-grass of the Great Plains region, and is greatly 

 relished by all kinds of stock. It covers large areas with a close mat of tine- 

 leafed herbage, and as winter forage plant it is without an equal. 



