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Fig. 220. Bulbilis dactyloides (Nutt.) Raf. (Buchlo'e daciy- 

 loides Engelni.); Britton and Brown, 111. Fl., 1 : 183. Buffalo- 

 grass. — A low, fine-leafed, and extensively creeping perennial, 

 rarely more than 1 to 1.5 dm. high. Similar to Bermuda in habit 

 of growth. — Dry prairies and river bottoms, Minnesota and South 

 Dakota (ascends to 1,650 m. in Black Hills), to Arkansas, southern 

 Texas, and Colorado. [Mexico.] March-August. 



