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Fig. 579. Festuca sciurea Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 

 147. 1837. — A slender, erect, caespitose annual 1.5 to 5 dm. high, 

 with short, filiform leaves and narrow, simple panicles 5 to 20 cm. 

 long. Spikelets 4 to 6 mm. long, 3- to 7-flowered, with unequal 

 empty glumes (a), the second 3-nerved, and very narrow flowering 

 glumes which are pilose, especially above, and terminate in slender 

 awns 8 to 12 mm. long. — Arkansas, Indian Territory, Mississippi, 

 and Texas. 



Distinguished from F. octojlora by its pilose flowering glumes 

 and longer awns. 



