ovate-lanceolate

The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, 5 - 12 cm long, pointed at the tip, blunt at the base.

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The _fourth glume_ is ovate-lanceolate and abruptly narrowed above the middle, 5-nerved and paleate, palea is shorter than the glume but broader, 2-nerved and acute.

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The _second glume_ is membranous, ovate-lanceolate, twice as long as the _first glume_, cuspidately acuminate, 5-nerved; the two marginal nerves are provided with long reddish bristly hairs.

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The _first glume_ is lanceolate and nerveless or ovate-lanceolate and 1-nerved, half as long as the third glume, hyaline and acute.

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The _leaf-blade_ is linear or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, glaucous beneath, base rounded or subcordate, 1 to 3 inches long and 1/2 to 3/4 inch broad.

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The _first glume_ is membranous, about two-thirds of the second, sometimes less, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate slightly scaberulous on the keel.

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The _second glume_ is membranous, ovate-lanceolate acute, 7 - to

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Spikes 2 to 6; spikelets narrow 4-awned, glume III ovate-lanceolate, bearded only on the margins and not at the back.

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The _spikelets_ are about 1/16 inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate dark or pale green, sometimes purplish, solitary or two to four on long slender pedicels, drooping, never appressed, and with glandular streaks.

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The second glume is ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or awned, 5-nerved, lateral nerves being marginal and hairy.

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