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Vegas Hot Springs; Burro Mountains; Socorro; Fort Bayard; Berendo Creek; Rincon; 
Cloverdale; Mesilla Valley; Organ Mountains; Malones Ranch; Roswell. Wet ground 
and borders of streams, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
2..Agrestis exarata Trin. Gram. Unifl. 207. 1824. 
Type Locaity: “ Unalaschka.”’ 
Rance: Alaska and British America to Mexico; also in Siberia. 
New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Ramah; Winsor Creek; Pecos; Rio Pueblo; 
Las Vegas; Cross L Ranch; Fort Bayard; Rio Mimbres; Chiz; Lower Plaza; Deming; 
Santa Fe; Burro Mountains; Organ Mountains; Gilmores Ranch. Wet ground, in the 
Transition Zone. 
8. Agrostis hiemalis (Walt.) B.S. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 68. 1888. Hair GRASS, 
Cornucopiae hiemalis Walt. Fl. Carol. 73. 1788. 
Agrostis seabra Willd. Sp. Pl. 1:370, 1799. 
Type Locauity: Carolina. 
Rance: Throughout most of North America. 
New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia 
Mountains; Grants Station; Inscription Rock; Mogollon Mountains; Mimbres River; 
White and Sacramento mountains. Meadows and woods, in the Transition and 
Canadian zones. 
4. Agrostis idahoensis Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 42. 1897. 
Agrostis tenuis Vasey, Bull. Torrey Club 10: 21. 1883, not Sibth. 1794. 
Type Locatiry: Forest, Nez Perces County, Idaho. 
Rance: Washington and Montana to California and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: El Rito Creek ( Wooton 2989). Damp woods, in the Transition Zone. 
5. Agrostis alba L. Sp. Pl. 63. 1753. REDTOP. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘Habitat in Europae nemoribus.”’ 
RanGeE: British America, southward to Mexico. 
New Mexico: El Rito Creek; Santa Fe; Albuquerque; Zuni Reservation; Indian 
Creek; Farmington; Cedar Hill; Fort Bayard; Animas Creek; White Mountains. Wet 
meadows, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones, 
6. Agrostis rosei Scribn. & Merr. U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 24; 21. 1901. 
Type Locauiry: Sierra Madre, Zacatecas, Mexico. 
RanGE: Southwestern New Mexico to central Mexico. 
New Mexico: Cloverdale (Mearns 462). 
86. CALAMAGROSTIS Adans. REED BENTGRASS. 
Tall perennials with small spikelets in many-flowered terminal panicles; spikelets 
1-flowered; rachilla produced above the floret into a short, usually hairy pedicel or 
bristle; glumes nearly equal, awnless, usually exceeding the lemma; lemma sur- 
rounded at the base by numerous hairs, these sometimes equaling or exceeding it in 
length, awned on the back usually from below the middle; palea more than half 
the length of the lemma, faintly 2-nerved; stamens 3; styles distinct; grain inclosed 
by the lemma and palea and more or less adherent. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Panicles open, the lower branches spreading or drooping; spikelets 
greenish.............22 20 eee ee eee eee eee eee eee ences 1. C. canadensis. 
Panicles dense, the branches erect or ascending; spikelets strongly 
tinged with purple..........-..-.--.-2----------------0-- .. 2. C. hyperborea 
americana, 
