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Fig. 626. Asperella californica (Bol.) Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2 : 

 657. 1896. (Gymnostichum calif ornicum, Bo]and. Cat. 35. 1870.) 

 California Bottle-brush. A stout, erect perennial, 10 to 20 

 dm. liigh, with hirsute lower sheaths, broad, flat leaves, and ter- 

 minal, bearded sjiikes 15 to 25 cm. long. Spikelets 1- to 3-tlow- 

 ered, with nearly obsolete empty glumes and strongly hispid 

 flowering glumes terminated in a stout, rough awn nearly as 

 long as the glume itself. California. 



