2 
E 
p 
V | | | ( | | — 
` c 
^, 
a e 
S ( 
à i 
N 
J 
8 
Fic. 464, SPOROBOLUS ASPERIFOLIUS (Nees & Mey.) Thurb. in 8. ve ; 
: 209. 1880. (Vi Nees & Meyen, in Trin. Agrostiðen 
73. 1840.) ROUGH-LEAFED SALT-GRASS.—A slender, much-branched, len? 
perennial 1-3.5 dm. (4-14/) high, with diffuse panicles 6-10 em. (21/4) l 
A lets 1-1.5 mm. (-% long, with nearly equal, acute empty glumes p 
wo-thirds as long as the obtuse, mucronate flowering glume (b). The grain? 
pot hg ¢—Alkaline soil, Assiniboia to the Dakotas and Missouri, west" 
— Columbia, eme and California. June to September. a» 
species grows well on strongly alkaline soil, and may prove 
for propagation on such lands. : f 
