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Fig. 527. Melica smithii (Porter) Vasey, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 

 15 : 294. 1888. (Avena smithii T. C. Porter.) Smith's Melic- 

 grass. — A slender, erect perennial, 5 to 10 dm. high, with flat 

 leaves, and spreading panicles 12 to 21 cm. long. Spikelets 3- to 

 6-flowered, 20 mm. long, with unequal empty glumes and awned, 

 glabrous flowering glumes (6) about 10 mm. long. Awn one- 

 fourth to one-half as long as the glume. — Moist woodlands Michi- 

 gan, Montana, Washington, and British Columbia. June-August. 



Allied to M. aristata. Thurb. 



