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Fig. 279. GRAPHEPHORUM MELICOIDEUM (Michx.) Beauv. Agrost. 164. 

 pl.lS.f.S. 1812. (.-l/mme^/co/desMichx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 62. 1803.)— A rather 

 slender, erect, pale-green, csespitose perennial 3 6 dm. (1° 2°) high, with flat 

 leaves and loosely flowered, nodding panicles 7-14 cm. (3'-6') long. Sheaths 

 usually shorter than the internodes, smooth, or the lower ones often villous- 

 leaf-blades 4-22" cm. (U'-Q') long, 2-4 mm. (l"-2") wide, long-acuminate, scab- 

 rous. Spikelets (a) 2 to 4 flowered, 5-6 mm. (2i"-3") long; empty glumes (b) 

 scabrous on the keel, the first 1-nerved or obscurely 3-nerved, shorter than the 

 3-nerved second one; flowering glumes (c) 3 to 5 nerved, acute, bearing a short 

 awn just below the apex.-Rocky or gravelly river shores, low woods (some- 

 times pine woods), etc. Anticosti Island to Vermont, Michigan, and North- 

 west Territory. August, September. (Allied to Trise^Mm.) 



