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Fig. 562. Poa douglassii Xees. Ann. Xat. Hist. 1: 284. 1838. 

 Thurb. in Brewer and S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 314. (Brizopyrum 

 douglassii Hook. & Am.) Douglass' Sand-grass. — A slender, 

 tufted perennial, 1.5 to 3 dm. high, from long, creeping root- 

 stocks, with numerous, convolute radical leaves, flat culm leaves. 

 and densely flowered panicles 2 to 4 cm. long. 8pikelets 3- to 5- 

 flowered, about 8 mm. long, with acute empty glumes (a c) and 

 acute flowering glumes which are 6 mm. long, ciliate-puhescent 

 on the keel above, and softly hairy or more or less crisped-woolly 

 below. — In sands along the coast, California and northward. 

 May. 



An excellent sand binder. 





