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16 CONTKIBUTIONt^ FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Stems erect, glabrous, 20 to 50 cm. high, 2 or 3-jomted; sheaths smooth or pubes- 

 cent, the lower nearly equaling the internodes; ligule nearly obsolete; blades flat or 

 loosely involute, narrowly linear, glabrous or pubescent, 3 to 10 cm. long; panicle 

 erect, 4 to 10 cm. long, the solitary rays and the spikelets all at length divaricate; 

 spikelets 1 to S-flowerLul, 5 to 7 cm. long; glumes unocpial, the lower subulate, 

 1-nerved, 3 to 4 mm. long, the ui)per lanceolate, 3-nerved, 4 to 5 mm. long; lemma 

 lanceolate, convex, 4 to 6 mm. long, pubescent, attenuate into a scabrous awn as 

 lung or shorter; palea acniminate, equaling the lemma. 



The following specimens have been examine<l; 



Oregon; 



Grave Creek, IloweJI, INIay 20, 1884 (in part). 



California: 



Salt Creek, Tulare County, Fadwood, Ma>', 1894. 



South Pasad('na, Alien, April 4, 1885. 



Napa City, Jepson, April, 1893. 



Lake County, Blankinship, Jime 3, 1893. 



H. Festuca eastwoodae sp. nov. 



Culm erect, glabrous, 4-jointed, 30 cm. high; lower sheatha equaling or exceeding 

 their respective int^rnodes, puberulent or glabr..>u9; ligule very short; blades soft, 

 loosely involute, sharply acute, pnberulent or glabrous; panicle open, 10 cm. long, 

 pubescent throughout; rays and spikelets all divaricate; glumes lanceolate, the lower 

 1-ncrved, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, the upper 3-nerved, 3.5 mm. long, hirsute; lemma 

 lanceolate, hirsute, 4 or 5 mm. long, tipped with a straight scabrous awn as long or 



longer. 



Collected by Miss Alice Eastwood, May, 18!I7, at Milpitae ranch, Santa Luci 

 Mountains, Monterey County, California, and by an unknown collector at Volcano, 



May, 188r>. 



Differs from F. microstadiyi^ Nntt. essentially in its hirsute ghunes. 



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9. Festuca myuros L. 

 Fentaca muuro,^^^, i^p. PI. 1: 74. M^'^. 'aiabitat in Anglia, Italia 



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J)EHCRIPTI{>N. 



Stems erect, s^ometimes geniculate at base, solitary or forming small tufts, usually 

 20 to 60 cm. high, glabron^, S-jointed, usually completely conr^ealed by the sheaths; 

 sheathH always emootli, exceeding the internoilep; ligule very short, truncate; Ijlades 

 smooth, linear, involute or rarely flat; panicle long and narrow, 7 to 20 cm. long, 

 the branches appreased, the tips usuallj' bending over; rays solitary; spikelets pale 

 green, 4 or 5-flo\vered, 8 to 11 mm. lung, on stalks 1 to 2 mm. long; joints of the 

 rachilla cylindric, smooth; glumes glabrous^, very unequal, the lower 1-nerved, 1.5 

 to 2 mm. long, the upper 4 to 5 mm. long, with two small lateral nerves; lemma 

 linear-lanceolate^ obscurely 5-nerve<l, scabrous above, not ciliate, attenuate at apex 

 into a scabrous awn about twice its length; palea lanceolate, shorter than the lemma, 



the nerves hispitlulous; stamen 1. 



This European plant is commonly introduced in the eastern United States, but as 

 yet it is rare in the interior and on the Pacific slope. Indistinguishable from it so 

 far as we can see is the South American Festaca mimdh Kunth, Syn, PI. 218. 1822. 



