Fig. 464. Sporobolus asperifolius ^Nees & Mey.) Thurb. in 

 Brewer & S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 269. 1880. ( Tilfa asperifolia 

 Xees & Meyer). Rough-leafed Salt-grass. — A slender, much- 

 branched, leafy perennial 1 to 3 5 dm. high, with diffuse panicles 

 6 to 10 cm. long. Spikelets 1 to 5 mm. long -with nearly equal, 

 >.cute empty glumes (a). — Alkaline soil, Assiniboia to the Da".:ot;is 

 ,nd Missouri westward to British Columbia and California. 

 J une-September. 



