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Fig. 538. Poa reflexa Vasey& Scribn. Contrib. Nat. Herb.. 1: 

 > Nc doing Blue-grass. — A slender, erect perennial, with 

 soft, flat leaves and open, pyramidal panicles with capillary, 

 rather distant and finally reflexed branches. Spikelets a 

 4 mm. long, 2- to 3-flowered: empty glumes nearly equal; flower- 

 ing glumes ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, pubescent on the middle and 

 lateral nerves, and webbed at the base. — Wet. boggy places. 

 mountains of Wyoming and Colorado to Washington and British 

 America. July, August. 



