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Fig. 619. Elymus innovatus Beal, Grasses of North America, 

 2 : 650. 1896. (Elymus brownei Scribn. & Smith., U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Div. Agros. Bull. 8 : 7, PI. IV.) Brown's Wild Rye. — A rigid, 

 rather slender, erect perennial 5 to 9 dm. high, with short cauline 

 leaves, and densely flowered, pubescent spikes 4 to 10 cm. long. 

 Spikelets 3- to 6-flowered, 10 to 15 mm. long, with densely pubes- 

 cent flowering glumes 8 to 10 mm. long. — Gravelly or sandy 

 banks, South Dakota, Wyoming, British Columbia, and north ward 

 to Alaska. June-September. 



