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Figure 268. — Melica montezumae. Panicle, X 1; spikelet, X 5. (Pringle 430, Mexico.) 



ing; spikelets pale; falling entire, 7 to 

 8 mm. long, more or less pendulous on 

 filiform pedicels; glumes exceeding 

 the florets, hyaline toward the sum- 

 mit, the first 4 mm. broad, expanded 

 at maturity, the second slightly 

 shorter and narrower; fertile floret 1, 



the lemma scabrous, strongly nerved 

 and with a few flat twisted gold- 

 en hairs about the middle; rudiment 

 obconic. % — Shaded mountain 

 slopes and canyons, Pecos and Brew- 

 ster Counties, Tex., and northern 

 Mexico. 



