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Fig. 444. Muhlenbergia comata (Thurb.) Benth. ; Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. 19 : 83. 1881. (Vaseya comata Thurb. Troc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila, 1863. 79. Woolly Drop-seed. — A rather stout or slender, 

 upright perennial, 3 to 9 dm. high, with flat leaves and densely 

 flowered, more or less lobed, or interrupted panicles, 6 to 8 cm. 

 long. Spikelets about 3 mm. long, with densely silky -hairy flower- 

 ing glumes (&). — Rather moist, broken ground, in mountains and 

 foothills, Nebraska to Oregon, south to Colorado and California. 

 July-September. 



