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Fig. 574. Festuca obtusa Spreng. Mant. Fl. Hal. 34. 1807. 

 ( F. shprtii Kunth, Wood's Class Book of Botany, 794. 1861. ) Short's 

 Fescue. — A rather stout, erect, glabrous perenuial 6 to 12 dm. 

 high, with flat leaves and rather narrow, nodding panicles 8 to 

 16 cm. long. Spikelets broadly obovate, 3- to 6-flowered, 5 to 6 

 mm. long, with the flowering glumes about 4 mm. long. — Open 

 woods and thickets, Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tennessee, Kansas, 

 Mississippi, and Texas. July, August. 



