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Fig. 127. Sporobolus airoides Torr. Fine-top Salt-grass. 

 A stout, coarse, and rigid perennial 3 to 9 dm. high, with long, nar- 

 row leaves and open, spreading panicles of many small spikelets. 

 Moist or dry, usually saline or alkaline soil in deserts, prairies, 

 along streams, in meadows, etc., Nebraska and Kansas to Idaho, 

 California, Texas, and Arizona. [Mexico and Lower California.] 

 July-September. 



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