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alpina, but are longer. From this species it also differs in its larger size, acute 
ligule, and the long, creeping rootstock. Rare: Thedford, June 14 (No. 1272). 
Redfieldia flexuosa (Thurb.) Vasey, Bull. Torr. Club, xiv, 133 (1887); Graphe- 
phorum (2?) flexuosum Thurb. Proc, Acad. Phila. 1868, 78 (1863). 
A blowout grass, growing in the very driest and loosest sand. Near Middle Loup, 
north of Mullen, July 19; railroad embankment, east thereof, July 20 and August 
17 (No, 1583). 
Distichlis spicata stricta (Torr.) Scribner, Mem. Torr. Club, v, 51 (1894); Uniola 
stricta Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 155 (1824). 
On sandy soil, near water: northeast of Whitman, July 29 (No. 1623); Cody’s 
Lakes, August 9 (No. 1814). 
Scolochloa festucacea (Willd.) Link, Hort. Berol. i, 187 (1827); Arundo festucacea 
Willd. Enum. i, 126 (1809). 
This rare plant was collected ina lake, northwest of Whitman, September 20 (No. 
1795). It is new to Nebraska. 
Panicularia nervata (Wilid.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii, 783 (1891); Poa nervata 
Willd. Sp. Pl. i, 389 (1798). 
The Nebraska forms of this species are much more slender than usual, and have a 
more or less drooping panicle of small spikelets: Thedford, June 14; Dismal River, 
June 27; Plummer Ford, July 3 (No. 1269). No, 1400 is a taller form with more spread- 
ing panicle, but not as robust as the species often grows in the East: Thedford, 
June 21; Plummer Ford, July 4. 
Panicularia aquatica (L.) Kuntze, Rey. Gen. PI. ii, 282 (1891); Poa aquatica L. Sp. 
Pl. i, 67 (17538). 
In rivers: Plummer Ford, July 3; Mullen, July 18 (No. 1459). 
Festuca octoflora Walt. Fl. Car. 81 (1788). 
A worthless little grass. Dry soil, Thedford, June 14 (No. 1282). 
Bromus ciliatus L. Sp. Pl. i, 76 (1753). 
Meadows: Mullen, July 19; Plummer Ford, July 3; Forks of Dismal River, July 
12 (No, 1404). 
Bromus ciliatus porteri nom. nov.; Bromus kalmii porteri Coulter, Man. Rock. 
Mount. Reg. 425 (1885). 
I can not find any authentic specimen of this variety in the National Herbarium. 
My specimens agree well with the description in Coulter’s Manual and are exactly 
like specimens so labeled in the Herbarium of the University of Nebraska, the authen- 
ticity of which, however, is doubtful, Professor Scribner thinks that my specimens 
belong to a form of &. ciliatus, not of B. kalmii. Meadows: Mullen, August 19; 
Thedford, September 13 (No. 1775). 
Agropyron repens glaucum (Desf.) Scribner, Mem. Torr. Club, v, 57 (1894) ; Triti- 
cum glaucum Desf. Tabl. Bot. Mus. 16 (1804). 
Common throughout the region in the drier parts of the valleys: Plummer Ford, 
July 3; Dismal River, June 27. In an old haystack, northeast of Whitman, August 
1, a form was found with broad, flat leaves, approaching the true 4, repens (No. 1434). 
In rich soil, the spikelets often become large and double: Thedford, June 16, Plum- 
mer Ford, June 3 (No, 1796). 
Agropyron violaceum (?) majus Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. i, 280 (1893). 
Very similar to 4. tenerum, but stouter; 10 to 12 dm. high; spike 15 to 25 cm. long, 
of numerous spikelets, which are larger and more crowded than in A, tenerum; glumes 
strongly veined, the empty ones often purplish; tinged and generally shorter than 
the spikelet; glumes mucronate or short-awned; joints of the spikelets pilose. This 
latter character may not be constant, but I have found it in all Nebraska specimens 
