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Fig. 417. Aristida spiciformis Kll. ]5ot. S. Car. & Ga. 1:141. 

 1H17. Spikk-i.im; Po\kkiv (Jiiass. A stout, erect perennial. S to 

 9 dm. liigli, with ratLer long, linear leaves and densely llowered, 

 cylindrical, spike-like panicles. Outer ginnies nmch shorter than 

 the tlowering one, which is twisted above to the .spreading or 

 divc^rgcnt awns. Thoniiddh^ awn lunger than the lateral ones. 

 Moist pine barrens, Georgia and I'lorida to Mississippi. Jiilv- 

 October. 



