780 



MISC. PUBLICATION 200, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Figure 1182. — Heteropogon contortus. Plant, X Yi', fruiting spikelet, X 5. (Griffiths 1844, Ariz.) 



slender, nearly hidden by the im- 5 to 12 cm. long, bent and flexuous, 

 bricate pedicellate spikelets, the awns commonly tangled; pedicellate spike- 



