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Fig. 212. Leptochloa fascicularis (Lam.) A. Gray. Clus- 

 tered Salt-grass. — An erect, ascending or more or less difiusely 

 spreading, ca>spitose, muck-branched annual 5 to 6 dm. high, with 

 numerous, erect, crowded spikes 6 to 8 cm. long. — Salt marshes 

 along the coast, Rhode Island to Texas ; saline soil in the interior, 

 western New York to South Dakota, Nevada, New Mexico, and 

 Texas. [Mexico and West Indies.] July-September. 



