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Fig. 578. Festuca microstachys Nutt. Journ. Acad. (n. ser.) 

 1:187. 1848; Vasey 111. N. Am. Grasses, 2:91.) Small-topped 

 Fescue. — A slender, caespitose annual 1 to 4 dm. high, with nar- 

 row, filiform leaves and simple, racemose or spike-like panicles 

 2 to 10 cm. long. Spikelets 1- to 5-flowered with nearly equal 

 empty glumes and awned floweriug glumes 4 to 6 mm. long; 

 awn 6 to 10 mm. long. — Utah, Nevada, and Idaho to Vancouver 

 Island, southward to Arizona and southern California. April- 

 June. 





