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Fig. 516. Eragrostis secundiflora Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 1 : 276. 

 1830. (Eragrosiis oxylepis Torr. ; Poa interrupta Nutt. not Lara.) 

 Purple Love-grass. — A smooth perennial 1.5 to 9 dm. high, with 

 rather rigid, narrow leaves and contracted or open panicles 3 to 

 12 cm. long. Spikelets (a, b) crowded, strongly compressed, 8- to 

 40-flowered, 6 to 20 mm. long, with acute glumes. — Dry soil, 

 Florida, Alabama and westward to Kansas, Indian Territory, 

 Texas, and California. [Mexico and Central America.] July- 

 November. 



