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Fig. 493. Calamagrostis fasciculata Kearney, U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Div. Agros., Bull. 11 : 23, fig. 1. July, 1898. Couch Bent- 

 grass. — A slender, rather rigid, erect perennial 6 to 10 dm. high, 

 from creeping rootstocks, with narrow, mostly erect leaves and 

 contracted panicles 5 to 10 cm. long. Spikelets about 4 mm. long, 

 with a truncate and 4-dentate floral glume, which has a few short 

 hairs at the base and bears an awn on the back below the middle, 

 which usually exceeds the glume. — Mendocino and Marin coun- 

 ties, Cal. July, August. 



