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Fig. 173. Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Willd. Freshwater 

 Cord-grass. A stout, erect grass 6 to 18 dm. high, with un- 

 branched, smooth culms from strong, scaly, creeping rootstocks, 

 long, tough leaf blades, and live to twenty spikes, forming a ter- 

 minal panicle. River hanks and lake shores, also brackish coast 

 marshes, Maine and Nova Scotia to Assiniboia and Oregon, south 

 to New Jersey, western Tennessee, Texas, and Colorado. July- 

 October. 



