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Fig. 419. Aristida fasciculata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2 : 154. 

 1826. Dog-town Grass. — A slender or sometimes rather stout, 

 densely c;espitose, wiry perennial 2 to 4 dm. high, with narrow, 

 rather rigid, involute leaves, aud contracted, few-flowered pan- 

 icles 5 to 12 cm. long. Spikeleta usually purplish, with very 

 unequal empty glumes, the first about one-half the length of the 

 second, which is 14 to 24 mm. long; the flowering glume usually 

 about 12 mm. long, terminated by three divergent, nearly equal 

 awns varying in length from 2 to 10 cm. — Dry soil, Minnesota to 

 Kansas and Texas, and westward to British Columbia and Arizona. 

 April-September. 



