GRASSES OF IOWA. 



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Fig. 61. Setaria verlicdlata—a, spikelet showing bristle and glumes ; b, spikelet 

 (Div. Agros. U.S. Dept. Agrl. ) 



nearly equaling the 5-7 nerved, acute third glume, which bears a short 

 palea in its axil; flowering glume about 1.5 mm. long, elliptical, ovate, 

 acute, striate, nearly smooth or very finely transversely wrinkled below. 

 Palea similar in texture and markings, about as long as the glume. 



DISTRIBUTION". 



Iowa. Muscatine 520 (Reppert) ; 929 Mt. Ayr (Beard) ; Iowa 

 City (Hitchcock); 773 Mt. Pleasant (Mills); Council Bluffs, 1449 

 De Witt, 1300 Council Bluffs (Pammel) ; Keokuk (P. H. Rolfs) ; 

 LeClaire (F. M. Rolfs) ; Winterset (Carver) ; 2231 Ft. Dodge (Pam- 

 mel and Sokol) ; Johnson County (Miss Linder, Hitchcock and Mac- 

 bride). 



