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Fig. 279. Graphephorum melicoideum (Michx.) Beauv. — A 

 rather slender, erect, pale-green, ca i spitose perennial 3 to 6 din. high, 

 with flat leaves and loosely flowered, nodding panicdes 7 to 14 em. 

 long. — Rocky or gravelly river shores, low woods (sometimes pine 

 woods), etc., Anticosti Island to Vermont, Michigan, and North- 

 west Territory. August, September. (Allied to Trisetum.) 



