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Fig. 443. Muhlenbergia trichopodes (Ell.) Chapm. Fl. S. U. 

 S. 553. 1860. (Agrostis tricliopodes Ell.) Bunch Hair-grass. — A 

 slender, rather rigid perennial, 6 to 9 dm. high., with very narrow, 

 involute leaves and capillary panicles nearly 30 cm. long. Spike- 

 lets (a) with nearly equal empty glumes which are hardly more 

 than half the length of flowering glume (c), which is terminated 

 by a short, straight awn. — Dry pine barrens, North Carolina to 

 Florida and westward to Texas. July-October. 



