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Fig. 518. Melica imperfecta Trin. Gram. Suppl. Bull. Sc. Acad. 

 St. Petersb. 1:68, 1836; Icon. Gram. t. 35.5. {M. colpodioides 

 Nees; M. pamcokUs Nutt.) Small-floweked Melic-grass. 

 A somewhat skmder, erect pereunial 6 to 9 dm. high, with narrow, 

 flat leaves and more or less dift'usely spreading, many-flowered 

 panicles. Spikelets 1- to 2-flowered, 3 to 5 mm. long, with the empty 

 glumes (a) shorter than the spikelet; rudimeutary floret sessile or 

 nearly so. Hillsides and grassy mountain slopes, California. 

 [Lower California.] March-July. 



