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open woods, and rocky slopes, South Dakota to British Columbia, 



FIGURE 513. Sitanion jubatum. Pair of spiklets, X 2. (Type.) 



south to Missouri, Texas, California, and Mexico (fig. 516). At high 

 altitudes plants often dwarf. Softly pubes- 

 cent plants have been differentiated as S. 

 cinereum J. G. Smith (the pubescence whitish) 

 and S. velutinum Piper; short-awned plants 

 as S. insulare J. G. Smith and S. marginatum 

 Scribn. and Merr. ; rather small plants with 

 unusually slender awns as S. minus J. G. Smith, 

 and tall plants with coarse spikes as S. brevi- 

 Jolium J. G. Smith, S. longtfolium J. G. Smith, 



and S. montanum J. G. Smith. 



45. HYSTRIX Moench 



Spikelets 2- to 4-flowered, 1 to 4 at each node of a continuous flat- 

 tened rachis, horizontally spreading or ascending at maturity; glumes 

 reduced to short or minute awns, the first usually obsolete, both often 

 wanting in the upper spikelets; lemmas convex, rigid, tapering into 

 long awns, 5-nerved, the nerves obscure except toward the tip; palea 



