GRASSES OF IOWA. 



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description. 



Black-Fruited Mountain- 

 Rice. A rather stout, long and 

 broad-leaved perennial, I to 3 

 feet (3-9 dm.) high, with 

 narrow, simple panicles, 6 to 8 

 inches (15-20 cm.) long, 

 branches spreading in flower, the 

 lower ones in pairs, and about 2 

 inches (5 cm.) long, flower-bear- 

 ing above, naked below. Spikelets 

 tew, 4 to 5 lines (8- 10 mm.) 

 long; empty glumes about ,7- 

 nerved, acute, slightly exceeding 

 the thinly pubescent and coria- 

 ceous flowering glume ; awn 

 about 12 lines (24 mm.) long. 

 Open, rocky woods, sometimes 

 on cliffs. Quebec and Ontario 

 to Delaware, Kentucky, Mis- 

 souri and Minnesota. 



Black-fruited mountain rice 



occurs sparingly in the woods of 



r s J Fig. 103. Oryzopsis melanocarpa—&, b, 



eastern, central and northwest- spikelet, coriaceous flowering glume and awn. 



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distribution. 



Iowa. Ames, Okoboji Lake (Hitchcock) ; Mt. Pleasant (Mills) ; 

 Ames, 1005 (Ball); Sioux City (Miss Wakefield); Jackson County 

 (Shimek) ; Steamboat Rock 3147, 3192 Lansing (Miss King). 



North America. Ontario, Vermont, New Jersey, south to Ken- 

 tucky, Pennsylvania (Lycoming County, Small), Ohio (Springfield, 

 Sullivant), to Missouri, Iowa. Minnesota and Wisconsin. 



