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Fig. 484. Agrostis verticillata Vill. Trosp. 16. 1779; Triu. Icon. 

 Gram. t. 36 (J. sfolonifera LJ.) Water Bent-grass. A slender 

 pereuiiial, with flat leaves, erect or decumbeut culms, 2 to 6 dm. 

 loug, and densely flowered, more or less interrupted panicles 5 to 25 

 cm. long. Spikelets about 1.5 mm. loug with nearly equal, minutely 

 pubescent, empty glumes {a) about one-half longer than the 

 obtuse and minutely dentate, awnless flowering glume. Moist 

 places, Utah to Texas, and westward to California. [Mexico, 

 South America, Europe, and India.] May-August. 



