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Fig. 466. Sporobolus vaginaeflorus (Ton.) Wood, Classbook 

 of Bot. 775. 1861. (Vilfa vaginceflora, Torr. 1831.) Southern 

 Poverty-grass. — A slender, c;espitose annual. 1.5 to 1 dm. high, 

 with very narrow, short leaves arid simple, few-flowered, terminal 

 and axillary, spike-like panicles which are about 2 cm. long aud 

 mostly inclosed in the somewhat inflated leaf-sheaths. Spikelets 

 2 to 4 mm. long. — Dry fields and waste places. Vermont to South 

 Dnkota and Wyoming, southward to Georgia and Texas. August, 

 September. 



