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Figure 415. — Sieglingia decumbens. Panicle, X 1; glumes and floret, X 5. (Robinson and Schrenk 206, 



Newfoundland.) 



cm., slender, terete; leaves numerous tuft of long hairs in the throat; blades 



in a basal cluster, the blades usually usually not more than 12 cm. long, 



curled or flexuous; sheaths glabrous filiform, to 2 mm. wide, occasionally 



or pilose above the nodes, with a a few blades 15 to 20 cm. long, sub- 



