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Fig. 240. Eragrostis neo-mexicana Vasey ; Beal, Grasses N. 

 Am., 2: 485. Crab-GRASS (in New Mexico). A rather stout, 

 branching and leafy annual 3 to 12 dm. high, with flat leaves ami 

 ample, diffuse panicles 20 to 40 cm. long. Texas to southern Cali- 

 fornia (ascends to 1,500 m. in Arizona). August. A valuable hay 

 grass resembling Terr* (E. abyssinica). 



