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Fig. 602. Secale montanum Guss. Flor. Sic. Prod. 145. 1827. 

 Mountain Eye. A librous-rooted, erect, glabrous perennial, 9 to 

 12 dm. liigli, with Hat leaves and nodding, somewhat C(>mi)re8sed 

 spikes 6 to 10 cm. long. Spikelets about 15 mm. long, with \ ( ry 

 narrow, awuless, or short-awned empty glumes and ciliato,5-nerved, 

 awned flowering glumes; awns 28 to 30 mm. long. Sparingly in- 

 troduced into cultivation. July. 



Probably a good hay grass. 



