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Fig 240 EBAGROSTIS NEO-MEXICANA Vasey, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2 : 

 542 1894 CRAB-GRASS (in New Mexico). -A rather stout, branching, and 

 leafv annual 3-12 dm. (l°-i°) high, with flat leave.s and ample, diffuse panicles 

 20-40 cm. (8'-16') long. Spikelets {a,b) 5-8 mm. (24"-4") long, 9 to 15 flowered; 

 flowering glumes hispid on the keel near the acute apex, one-fourth longer 

 than the ciliate palea (c). Grain oblong, truncate at each end, slightly 

 grooved.-Texas to southern California (ascends to 1,500 m. (4,500°) in Arizona. 



August. 

 A valuable hay grass resembling Teff {E. abyssimca). 



