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Fig. 441. Oryzopsis webberi (Thurb.) Vasey, Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 Club, 15 : 49. 1888. (Eriocoma webberi Thurb. in Brewer & S. 

 Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 283. 1880).— A slender, wiry, and densely 

 tufted perennial 1 to 2 dm. high, with rigid, pungent-pointed, 

 convolute leaves, and narrow, few-flowered panicles, 2 to 5 cm. 

 long. Spikelets about 8 mm. long with acuminate empty glumes, 

 and awned flowering glumes which are densely clothed with white, 



silky hairs. Awn very slender, about 4 mm. long.- 

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-California. 



