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Fig. 292. Bromus brizaeformis Fisch. & Mey. Briza-like 

 Brome-grass. A slender, erect, csespito&e aunual 2 to 5 dm. high, 

 with soft, flat leaves and noddiug panicles of large ten- to fifteen- 

 flowered spikelets 2 to 3 cm. long. Meadows and cultivated fields, 

 introduced, Montana to Washington, south to Utah, Nevada, and 

 California; sparingly in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsyl- 

 vania. [Europe and Asia.] June-August. 



