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Fig. 253. Eatonia nitida (Sprengel) Nash (Aira nitida Spr. ; 

 Eatonia dudleyi Vasey). A slender, erect, and cjospitose peren- 

 nial 3 to 6 dm. liigb, with short, flat, spreading leaves and rather 

 few-flowered, nodding panicles. Dry, open woodlands, Rhode 

 Island and New York westward to North Dakota, and southward 

 to North Carolina, Mississippi and Texas. April-June. 



