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Fig. 584. Bromus kalmii A. Gray, Man. 600. 1848. Kalm's 

 Brome-grass. — A rather slender, erect perennial, 4.5 to 9 dm. high, 

 with usually pubescent sheaths and leaves, and nodding, few- 

 flowered panicles 5 to 15 cm. long. Spikelets 6- to 10-flowered, 

 12 to 24 mm. long, on slender, flexuous pedicels; the first glume 

 3-nerved, the second 5- to 7-nerved; the flowering glume about 8 

 mm. long, densely silky-pubescent, and short-awned. — Dry soil, 

 Canada to Pennsylvania, and westward to Utah, Idaho and British 

 Columbia. June-August. 



