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Fig. 410. Savastana alpina (Sw.) Scribn. Mem. Torr. Bot. Club. 

 5:34. 1894. (Holcus aliy'ums Sw. Hierochloa alpina R. & S.) 

 Alpine Holygrass. — A slender, glabrous, erect perennial 1.5 to 

 4.5 dm. high, with flat leaves and contracted panicles 1.5 to 3 cm. 

 long. Spikelets 5 to 7 mm. long, with the awn of the fourth glume 

 more or less bent and about 6 mm. long. — Greenland to Alaska 

 and on the high mountains of New England and New York. 

 [Northern Europe and Asia.] .July, August. 



