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128 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Melica acuminaia Boland. Proc. Cal. Acad. 4: 104. 1870. 
Festuca cepacea Philippi, Linnaea 33: 297. 1864-65. 
Melica cepacea Scribner, U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Cire. 830: 8. 1901. 
Type Locauity: Unalaska. 
Rance: Northern California to Wyoming and Alaska. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Clallam County, Elmer 1937; Seattle, Piper 839, 864; Coupeville 
Gardner 339; Easton, Henderson 2216; upper Nisqually Valley, Allen 47; Blue Mountains, 
Piper 2560; Lake & Hull 83; Horner 512; Stehekin, Griffiths & Cotton 220. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition to Arctic. 
6. Melica bella Piper, U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Cire. 27: 10. 1800. 
Melica bulbosa Geyer; Hook. Journ. Bot. & Kew Misc. 8: 19. 1856, nom. nud., not Melica 
bulbosa Geyer; Thurb. in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 304. 1880. 
Type Locauity: ‘Rocky ravine, Upper Platte.” Collected by Geyer. 
Rance: Washington to Wyoming and Oregon. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Wenache Mountains, Brandegee 1182; Whited, May 31, 1899; 
Mount Stuart, Sandberg & Leiberg 580; Upper Atanum River, Henderson 2214; Peshastin, 
Sandberg & Leiberg, July, 1893; Wenache, G. R. Vasey, July, 1889; Baensburg, Piper 2616; 
Chelan, Griffiths & Cotton 167; Stehekin, Griffiths & Cotton 239. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arid Transition. 
7. Melica bella intonsa, subsp. nov. 
Leaves and culms covered with a dense short reflexed pubescence. 
Rance: Washington to Nevada. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Wenas, Griffiths & Cotton 103, June, 1902 (type). 
7a. Melica fugax madophylla, subsp. nov. 
Leaves and stems glabrous or nearly so. 
Rance: Washington to California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 61 (type), 78, 16, 5; without locality 
Wilkes Expedition; Cascade Mountains, Vasey 9, 93. 
MELICA BROMOIDEsS Gray is included in Suksdorf’s List, but there is no evidence that the 
species occurs in Washington. 
PLEUROPOGON. 
1. Pleuropogon refractum (A. Gray) Vasey, U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. 13?: 
pl. 69. 1893. 
Lophochlaena refracta A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 409. 1872. 
Type LocaLity: Oregon. Collected by Hall. 
Rance: Oregon and Washington west of the Cascades. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Olympic Mountains, E7mer 1931; Piper; Seattle, Piper 886; 
Nisqually Valley, Allen 40; Stevens Pass, Sandberg & Leiberg 734; White River, Vasey 360. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Humid Transition to Canadian. 
DACTYLIS. 
1. Dactylis glomerata L. Sp. Pl. 1: 71. 1753. ORCHARD GRASS. 
Type Locauity: ‘Habitat in Europae cultis ruderatis.”’ 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Waitsburg, Horner 224. 
POA. BLUEGRAss. 
Annual; lemma without cobwebby hairs at base...................- 1. P. annua. 
Perennial. 
Plants with creeping rootstocks. 
Stem flattened, 2-edged; panicles small........-.------.---- 2. P. compressa. 
Stem cylindric. 
Lemma, webbed, that is, with a tuft of long hairs at the 
base. 
