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long, 8 to 10 mm thick; spikelets about 3 mm long, o — Waste 



Figure 857.-^4, Heleochloa schoenoides. Plant, X l A; spikelet and floret, X 5. (Smith, Pa.) B, H. alope- 



curoides, X 5. (Burk, Pa.) 



places, Massachusetts to Delaware, Michigan, 

 and Illinois (fig. 858); introduced from Europe. 

 Heleochloa alopecuroides (Pill, and Mitterp.) 

 Host. _ (Fig. 857, B.) Differing from H. schoe- 

 noides in the more slender panicles, 4 to 5 mm 

 thick, exserted at maturity; spikelets about 2 



mm long, o —Ballast, Philadelphia and figure sss.-Distribution of 

 near Portland, Oreg. Europe. Heleochloa schoenoides. 



