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Fig. 292. BROMUS BRiZiEFORMiS Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 

 3: 30. 1837. BRIZA-LIKE BROME-GRASS.— A slender, erect, cfespitose 

 annual 2-5 dm. (8'-20') high, with soft, flat leaves and nodding panicles of 

 large 10 to 15 flowered spikelets 2-3 cm. (I'-li') long. Sheaths shorter than 

 the internodes, the lower ones pubescent. Avith soft villous hairs; leaf-blades 

 2-18 cm. (l'-7') long, 2-6 mm. (l"-3") wide, pubescent. Spikelets (o) laterally 

 much compressed; empty glumes (b) obtuse, often purplish, glabrous or 

 minutely xmbescent, the first 3 to 5 nerved, the second larger, 5 to 9 nerved; 

 flowering glumes (c) 6-8 mm. (3"-4"j long, obtuse, 9-nerved, shining, glabrous, 

 or minutely pubescent. The palea is shown by <:/.— Meadows and cultivated 

 fields, introduced, Montana to Washington, south to Utah, Nevada, and Cal- 

 ifornia; sparingly in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. (Europe 

 and Asia.) June to August. 



