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Fk;. 5t)l. Poa glumaiis Tiiii. Mem. Acad. St. I'etorsb. (VI) 

 l:.37y. I80I. J.augk-ii,(\vki;ki) Iti.iK-ciUASS. A stout, erect, 

 smooth pereuuial 3 to 9 dm. bigb, from stroug, creeping root- 

 stocks, with thick, Hat leaves, closely flowered, contracted pani- 

 cles X to IG cm. long. Spikelets 3- to .")-lioW(rcd, K to 12 mm. long; 

 with nearly erjiial, acute, firm, empty glumes (a), and hroadly- 

 ovate flowering glumes Avhich are 4 to 5 mm. long and pubescent 

 ou the margins and keel helow, not wolihod. Xova Scotia, (Que- 

 bec, and westward to Alaska. May-Septiubei. 



