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40 CONTRIBUTIONS KKOM IHE NATIONAL HERRARIUM:. 



slenderj flextious, angled, srabrour^j few-branched above the middle; spikolets pale 

 green, sometimes pnrpli^^h-tinged, oblong-lanecolate, 8 to 5-floAvcrod, 7 to 12 mm. ' 

 long; joints of the rachilla cylindricj usually curved, scabrous, 1 to 2 mm, long; 

 glumes subulate, glabrous, the lower 1-nerved, 2 to 3 mm, long, the upper 3-nerved, 

 3 to 4 mm. lonfr, each .^])arsely scabrous near the apex; lernma green, membranace- 

 ous, narrowly lanceolatej 3-nerved, somewhat" >eele<l for its whole length, scabrous 

 toward the apex, o t<t 7 mm. long, attenuate into a scabrous slender awn, 5 to 20 mm. 

 long; palea as long as the lemma or slightly longer, lanceolate, acute, tlie Inflexed 

 sides one-third as broad as the internerve, the nerves scabrous. 



The species ranges from southeastern Alaska to nortliern California, and in the 

 llocky Mountains to Wyoming and Utali. 



The following ('*)llections are representative: 



Alaska: 



Foggy Ray, Coville A' Kearney 2572, 

 ITowkan, Krin\>^ 120, 



Cape Fox, X. J. Cole, July 26, 1899, 

 EiuTisn Columhia: 



Queen Charlotte Island, Newcomhe, July 24, 1897, 

 Agassiz, Maronn 89. 



Chilliwack Vallev, Macoun 26113. 

 Wasittxctox; 



Klickitat County, S a J:s(l or/ 170. 



Seattle, J^iper 988, 957. 



ChiUam County, Elmer 1918, 1916. 



I?lue Mountains, Horner 559. 



Chirk Springs, Spokane County, Kreager 38, 

 Or BO ox: 



Wallowa ^lonntains, Casick 2507. 

 Fagle Creek, CttHtck 2434, 

 California: 



Moulton, Warner Mountains, Griffiths d: Unnter 473. 

 Idaho: 



Lake OiMir d' Ahme, Sandberg, Heller, & MacVoxigal 542. 

 WvoMiN(i: 



Welcome, ^yimams 2085. 

 Ut A 1 r : 



Ogden, Tniry 363. 

 Montana: 



Eo/eman, Shear 465, 



Columbia Falls, Blankinship 1042. 



Subgenus 111, IIespkrociiloa subgcn. nov. 



Perennials, densely tufted, but producing occasional stout extravaginal stolons, 

 stigmas elongate, the numerous short branches arising from all sides, simple or but 

 little dentate; ovary deeply sulcate near the apex anterioi'ly, si)arsely hispidulous 

 above; caryopsis beaked and bidentate at apex; liihnn linear. 



34- Festuca confinis Va^ey, 



Poaf kingii Wats, Bot. King. Explor. 387, 187b Type in the National Ilerbarinm,. 



collected by Watson in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, July, 1868, altitude, 

 8,000 feet. 



