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Fig. 583. Bromus ciliatus Linn. Sp. PL 77. 1753. Swamp 

 Chess. — A stout, erect, leafy perennial, 6 to 12 dm. high, "with flat 

 leaves and open, nodding panicles 10 to 25 cm. long. Spikelets 5- to 

 8-flowered, 10 to 20 mm. long, with acute outer glumes, the first 

 1-nerved, the second 3-nerved, and short-awned flowering glumes, 

 which are ciliate-pubescent near the margins and 8 to 10 mm. 

 long. — Open woodlands and borders of thicket, Canada, British 

 Columbia, and southward to Florida and Texas. June-September. 



A widely distributed native grass of little agricultural value. 



