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Fig. 1. Tripsacum dactyloides L. Gama-grass. — A stout, 

 coarse, branching perennial it to 24 dm. high, with long and rather 

 broad leaves and a spicate inflorescence, the spikes being 2 to 4 

 on the main stem and usually solitary on the branches. — Low 

 meadows, moist thickets, ditches, etc. ; Rhode Island to Florida, 

 Kansas, and Texns. [Mexico.] April-October. 



