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Figure 378.— Koeleria cristata. Plant, X Yi\ glumes and floret, X 10. (Bebb 2862, 111.) 



and blades sparsely pilose; panicle 

 dense, spikelike, 2 to 7 cm. long, ob- 

 tuse; spikelets 2 to 4 mm. long; 

 glumes acute; lemmas short-awned 

 from a bifid apex ; glumes and lemmas 

 in the typical form papillose-hirsute 

 on the back, but commonly papillose 



only. O — Introduced from Eu- 

 rope at Pensacola, Fla., Mobile, Ala., 

 Cameron County, Tex., Portland, 

 Oreg., and at several points in Cali- 

 fornia. Cultivated in nursery plots at 

 Beltsville, Md., and Tucson, Ariz. 



