72 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
A 18. Muhlenbergia virescens (H. B. K.) Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1: 64. 1829. 
Podosaemum virescens H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 132. 1816. 
TYPE Locality: ‘‘Crescit locis asperis, excelsis regni Mexicani prope Santa Rosa 
de la Sierra et Puerto de Varientos, alt. 1350 hexap.” 
Rance: Arizona and New Mexico to Mexico. 
New Mexico: Northwestern New Mexico (Palmer); Ben More (Bigelow). Moun- 
tains, in the Transition Zone. 
19. Muhlenbergia affinis Trin. Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb. VI. 62: 301. 1845. 
Muhlenbergia metcal fi Jones, Contr. West. Bot. 14: 12, 1912, 
TyPE Locauity: ‘‘Toluco,’’ Mexico. 
RaneGeE: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and southward. 
New Mexico: Santa Rita Mountain; Fort Bayard; Filmore Canyon; Mangas 
Springs; near Silver City. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
The type of M. metcalfi (metealfei?) is Metcalfe’s 1485, from Santa Rita Mountain, 
WV 20. Muhlenbergia subalpina Vasey, Descr. Cat. Grasses U. S. 40. 1885. 
Muhlenbergia gracilis breviaristata Vasey in Wheeler, Rep. U.S. Surv. 100th Merid, 
6: 284. 1874. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Twin Lakes, Colorado. 
Rance: Wyoming to New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Northern New Mexico (George Vasey). Mountains, in the Transition 
Zone. 
21. Muhlenbergia acuminata Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 11: 337. 1886. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘New Mexico.’ Type collected by Wright (no. 1993). 
RANGE: Western Texas to Arizona. 
New Mexico: Kingston; Mangas Springs; Filmore Canyon. Dry hills, in the Upper 
Sonoran Zone, 
22. Muhlenbergia monticola Buckl. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1862: 91. 1863. 
Muhlenbergia neomexicana Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 11: 337. 1886. 
Muhlenbergia pringlei Scribn. Trans. N. Y. Acad. 14: 25. 1894. 
TYPE Locauity: ‘‘ Northwestern Texas,” 
Ranae: Western Texas to Arizona and Mexico, 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Albuquerque; Watrous; Grant; 
Mangas Springs; Kingston; Reserve; Dog Spring; Socorro; Organ Mountains; Dona 
Ana Mountains; White Mountains. Dry slopes, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
The type of M. neomexicana was collected in New Mexico. 
27. ORYZOPSIS Michx. 
Slender perennials with flat or involute leaves and loosely flowered, spreading or 
narrow panicles; spikelets 1-flowered, hermaphrodite; rachilla jointed above the 
glumes and not produced behind the palea, usually extended below the lemma 
into a short obtuse callus; glumes nearly equal, obtuse or acuminate; lemma a little 
shorter than the glumes, rather broad, cartilaginous, terminated by a slender deciduous 
awn; grain free. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Lemmas covered with long silky hairs, these much exceeding them 
in length. ... 2.22.02... 2.2 eee cece eee. 1. O. hymenioides. 
Lemmas glabrous or short-pubescent. 
Leaves slender, involute; spikelets small, 2.5 to 4mm. long.. 2. O. micrantha. 
Leaves broad and flat; spikelets large, 6 to 8 mm. long...... 3. O. asperifolia. 
