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Fig. 422. Aristidafloridana^Chapin.) Yasey. 1892. {Streptachne 

 tioridana Chapin. Fl. S. St. 554.) Florida Curly Beard.— A 

 slender, erect, somewhat wiry perenuial, about 6 dm. high, with 

 nearly filiform leaves and narrow panicles 30 em. long. Spikelets 

 (a) with nearly equal, purplish empty glumes and a strongly 

 involute, linear flowering glume tapering into a long, more or less 

 curved or flexuous awn; lateral awns wanting. — Florida. Sep- 

 tember. 



