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Fig. 448. Muhlenbergia capillaris Trin. Unifl. 191. 1824. 

 (Stijja capillaris Lam. 1791.) Beakded Haik-guass. A rigid, 

 erect, glabrous, and unbrancbed percnuial 6 to 10 dm. bigb, witli 

 long, involute leaves and showy, capillary panicles 15 to 4.5 cm. 

 long. Spikelets about 4 mm. long, with nearly equal empty 

 glumes and smooth flowering glume which bears a slender awn 6 

 to 18 nun. long. Dry, sandy, or rocky soil, open woods, etc., 

 Massachusetts to Florida and westward to Texas. 

 October. 



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