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28 CONTRIBUTIONS FliOM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 



The following specimens belong here: 

 Utah: 



Aquarius Plateau, L, F, Wm^d 502, altitude ;i,500 m. 



Brigham Peak, Jo)ies 5955, altitude 3,700 m. 

 Arizona: 



Mount Agasmz, Lemmon^ September, 1884. 



White Mountains, GriffiihH 53.38, 5243. 



Hart's Little Spring, Tonmej/, July 13, 1892. 



San Francisco Peaks, Leiberg 5957, altitu<ie 2,800 m. 



Without locality. Rushy 90L 



California: 



Plumas County, Lemmon 4G53. 



15i. Festuca ovina ingrata Hack. 



Fesiuai ovina ingraia Hack.; Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 598. 1896. Typo specimen in 

 the National Herbarium, collected by Howell in Oregon. 



Festuca ovina eolumhiana Beal, op. cit. 599. Type in Herbarium Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, published as from Pullman, Washington, but really collected in the 

 Bhie Mountains of Columbia County, Wasliington, by Lake and Hull. 



Festuca ovina oregona Hack,; Beal, op. cit. 599, not Fc^iuca oregonaY'd&ey. Type 

 in the National Herbarium, collected by Cusick in Oregon (no. 753), 



Festuca Idalioensis Elmer, Bot. (iaz. 36; 53. 1903. Type specimens from Smittis 

 Valley, Shoshone County, Idaho, collected by Abrams. We have examined a dupli- 

 cate in Elmer's herbarium. The leaves of this specimen are unusually smooth. 



This is the "blue bunch grass^' of stockmen, and is an important range grass. It 

 occurs from ]5ritish Cohimbia and Alberta south to California and Colorado. 



It is the American analogue of the Old AVorld Festuca ovina vaksiaca (Schleich. ) 

 Koch, and has sometimes been referred to the European F. ovina sulcata Hack. 



The following are representative colle(*tions: 

 Wasitin(;ton: 



"S, 



Pulhnan, Ehner 299, 826. 

 Falcon Valley, Suhdorf 1142, 

 Clark Springs, Krcager 41, 68, 

 Mount (^arlton, Krcager 24L 



Okegox: 



Grizzly Butte, Leiberg 276. 

 Without localitv, Cusick 2507. 



California: 



Plumas County, Lemmon 4653. 

 Highland Springs, Davy 6647* 



ArRKRTA: 



Sheep Mountains, Macoiai 13148* 

 Bhttish Columiua: 



Deer Park, Macoun 52. 



Montana: 



Spanish Basin, Rydberg d: Besseg 3676, 



Lima, Rydberg 2070; Shear 320. 

 Idaho: 



Beaver Canyon, Rydberg 2061; Shear 305. 



Little Potlatch River, Sandberg, Heller, & MacDougal 451 



Viola, Sandberg^ Heller, & MacDougal 504. 

 Lake Waha, Heller 3318, 3288, 



