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Fig. 220. Bulbilis dactyloides (Nutt.) Raf. (Buchloe dacty- 

 loides Engelin.); Britton and Brown, 111. FL, 1 : 183. Buffalo- 

 grass. A low, tine-leafed, aud extensively creeping perennial, 

 rarely more than 1 to 1.5 dm. high. Similar to Bermuda in habit 

 of growth. Dry prairies and river bottoms, Minnesota and South 

 Dakota (ascends to 1,650 m. in Black Hills), to Arkansas, southern 

 Texas, and Colorado. [Mexico.] March-August. 



