314 
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Fig. 6 UM Nutt. Gen. 1: bos 1818. 
RDEUM d 
LEY. e e rather rigid, 
with comparatively short, fat] 3 and award sp ane 
in 
awn-pointed; flowering glume of the central spikelet (b) 4 
lateral MA awnless or nearly so.—Arid, saline or 
British Columbia, south to South Carolina 
Man nd joies ounded, 
hed from H.nodosum, with which it has been vui 
dilated inner empty glumes of the lateral spikelets and the ; 
glumes of the central spikele 
