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Festuca delawarica Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1: 129. 1829. 
Poa delawarica Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 174. 1827. 
The type is in Berlin, labeled “ Delaware (Bernhardi)”. The specimen was 
apparently grown in the Botanic Garden at Berlin. It is the species American 
botanists call Puccinellia distans. 
Festuca villiflora Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 313, 1854. 
The type is in Steudel’s Herbarium at Paris labeled “ Labrador, Missionary 
Albrecht” and consists of one small plant. It is Festuca rubra kitaibeliana 
(Schultes) Piper, as previously surmised from Steudel’s description. 
Festuca megalura Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. n. ser. 1: 188. 1847. 
This has as synonyms F. commutata Steud.’ and F. chaetantha Kunze, cited 
as a synonym under fF’ sciuroides by Desvaux.? Both types are in Paris. 
Festuca eriolepis Desv. in Gay, Fl. Chil. 6: 428, 1853. 
The type is in the herbarium of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. It 
is not the plant described and figured in Contributions from the U. 8. National 
Herbarium volume 10, but is the same as Festuca octoflora hirtella Piper.’ 
The Chilean specimens have usually but 5 florets to each spikelet, a condition 
that also occurs in dwarfed specimens from California and Oregon. 
* Syn. Pl. Glum. 1:304, 1854. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10:18. 1906. 
“In Gay, Fl. Chil. 6:427. 1850. *Op. cit. 12. 
