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Fig. 424. Stipa avenaceoides Nash. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 22 : 

 423. 1895. Feather Grass.— A rather slender, erect, smooth 

 perennial, 6 to 12 dm. high, with long involute-setaceous leaves 

 and simple panicles 8 to 20 cm. long. Spikelets few. with acumi- 

 nate empty glumes (a), 16 to 20 mm. in length ; flowering glumes 

 (b), including the callus, 14 to 16 mm. loug. Awn 6 to 8 cm. long, 

 pubescent below, twice geniculate. — Florida in pine lands, near 

 Cassia, Lake County. March- Jul v. 



