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Fig. 413. Aristida californica Thurb. in Brewer & S. Wats. Bot. 

 Calif. 2 : 2S9. 1880.— Hare's Grass.— A slender, densely tufted, 

 pubescent perennial, with very narrow involute leaves and race- 

 mose, few-flowered panicles 2 to 4 cm. long. Outer glumes 

 unequal; flowering glume shorter than the first glume. Awns 

 slender, nearly equal, 3 to 4 cm. long, twisted below into a slender 

 stipe, which is articulated with the flowering glume. — Dry, desert 

 places, Arizona to southern aud Lower California. May. 



