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Fig. 504. Blepharidachne kingii (S. Wats.) Hackel in DC. 

 Monog. Phan. 6 : 261. 1889. (Eremochloe kingii S. Wats, in Bot. 

 King's Exped. 382, t. 40. 1871.) King's Desert-grass.— A low, 

 densely tufted perennial 0.2 to 0.6 dm. high, with numerous short, 

 spreading, recurved leaves aud deusely dowered, subcapitate pan- 

 icles partly inclosed in the upper leaf-sheaths. Spikelets about 

 3-flowered, with lanceolate, acute empty glumes (a) 6 to 7 mm. 

 long. Flowering glumes (b) deusely hairy at the base and along 

 the keel and marginal nerves, the nerves extending into short 

 awns, the middle one longest (c).— Dry foothills in tbe deserts of 

 Nevada and Arizona. April-July. 



