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Fig. 527. Melica smithii (rortei) Vasey, Bull. Torr. l?ot. Club 

 15:294. 1888. {Avena umithii T. C. Vorter.) .Smith's Melic- 

 GKA8S. A slender, erect pereiiuial, 5 to 10 dui. high, with Hat 

 leaves, and spreadiuj^ panicles 12 to 24 cm. long. Spikelets ;?- to 

 6-Howered, 20 niui. long, with unetiual enii)ty glumes and awned, 

 glabrous flowering glumes (/>) about 10 mm. long. Awn one- 

 fourth to one-half as long as the glunu-. Moist woodland.s Michi- 

 gan, Montana, Washington, and liritish Colunibiii. June-August. 



Allied to M. arixtalii. Thuib. 



