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Fig. 466. Sporobolus vaginaeflorus (Torr. ) Wood, Classbook 

 of Bot. 775. 1861. {Vilfa vagina-flora, Torr. 1834.) Southehx 

 Poverty-grass. A slender, ciespitose aunual, 1.5 to 4 dm. high, 

 with very narrow, sboi't leaves and simple, few-llowered, tenniual 

 and axillary, spike-like panicles which are about 2 cm. long and 

 mostly inclosed in the somewhat inflated leaf-sbeaths. Spikelets 

 2 to 4 mm. long. Dry fields and waste places, Vermont to South 

 Dakota and Wyoming, southward to Georgia and Texas. August, 

 Sei)teraber. 



