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Fig. 592. Agropyron pseudorepeus Scribn. & Smi th, U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Div. Agios. Bull. 4:31. 1897. False Couch-grass. An 

 erect, rather stout perennial 3 to 9 dm. liigb, from creeping root- 

 stocks, with flat, scabrous leaves, and erect spikes 8 to 16 cm. 

 long. iSpikelets 10 to 16 mm. long, 3- to 7-flo\vered, with linear- 

 lanceolate, nearly equnl and 5-nerved empty glumes, and acumi- 

 nate or awn-pointed tloweriug glumes. Rather moist soil, Texas 

 and Arizona to Nebraska, Montana, and British America. May- 

 September. 



