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Fig. 450. Lycurus phleoides HBK. Xov. Gen. 1: 142, t. 45. 1815. 

 Texan Timothy. — A slender and somewhat wiry perennial 2 to 

 4.5 dm. high, much branched and often geniculate at the base, with 

 narrow, long-pointed leaves and cylindrical, spike-like panicles 3 

 to 6 cm. long. Spikelets 4 mm. long, with awned glumes, the first 

 glume (C) often terminating in two unequal awns, the flowering 

 glume terminating in an awn as long as itself. — Dry soil on the 

 plains and mesas, Colorado to Texas and westward to New Mexico 

 and Arizona. [Mexico.] May-October. 



