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Transcription
Perennial, caespitose, clothed at the base
with murrocent sheaths, culms compressed,
rigid rough - a foot or more high.
Sheaths rough,ceeding the nodes. spikes
short - truncate. Leaves of the sterile shoots
2/3 as long as, or equaling the culm, concol-
cate setaceous - rigid - sculous - often recurved.
Culm leaves short - 1/2