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Fig. 45. Lycurus phleoides H. B. K. TEXAN TIMOTHY.— a, The empty 

 glumes; b, the floret; c, the 2-awned lower empty glume. 



45. x,YCTJRXTSH.B.K. Nov.Gen.etSp.Pl. 1: 141,t.U5. 1815. (Pleopogon Nutt.) 

 Spikelets 1-flowered, usually in pairs. Empty glumes 2, 3-nerved, the nerves 

 often produced into awns; flowering glume 3-nerved, awned, broader and 

 longer than the empty ones. Palea a little smaller and more slender, 2-nerved, 

 2-keeled, very shortly 2-toothed. Stamens 3. Styles short, distinct; stigmas 

 plumose. Grain included within the glumes, free. Caespitose, erect or ascend- 

 ing grasses, with narrow or often convolute leaves and cylindrical, usually 

 densely flowered, spike-like, terminal panicles; the lower spikelet of each pair 

 is often sterile. 



Species 2 or 3, Southwestern States to Mexico. 



