1910] Pease & Moore,— Agropyron caninum and Allies 75 
Moore f. pilosifolium Pease & Moore, f. nov. foliis supra sparsim 
pilosis.! 
Type specimen: Maine, Dead River, Somerset Co., August 19, 
1896 (M. L. Fernald, no. 576). 
10. A. CANINUM (L.) Beauv. var. andinum (Scribn. & Sm.) Pease 
& Moore, comb. nov. Length of the spikes (without the terminal 
awns) 4.3-9.5 cm. (mostly 5-7 cm.); width (exclusive of the awns) 
5-8 mm.; awns 9-20 mm. long, slightly spreading, not strongly re- 
curved as in the following. 
Agropyron violaceum (Hornem.) Lange var. andinum Scribn. & 
Sm. U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. no. 4, 30 (Feb. 6, 1897). 
A. biflorum (Brign.) R. & S. subsp. andinum (Scribn. & Sm.) 
Piper, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxxii, 547 (Oct. 21, 1905). 
A. andinum (Scribn. & Sm.) Rydb. Flora Colo. 54 (1906). 
Specimens examined: Monrana, Cedar Mt., July 16, 1897 (P. A 
Rydberg and E. A. Bessey, no. 3705): Wyomina, Dunraven Peak, 
August 27, 1899 (4. & E. Nelson, no. 6726); Telephone Mines, 
Albany Co., August 1, 1900 (4. Nelson, no. 7894): COLORADO, 
Silver Plume, August 24, 1895 (C. L. Shear, no. 393); Mt. Kelso, 
near Torrey’s Peak, 13000 ft., 1885 (G. W. Letterman). 
11. A. CANINUM (L.) Beauv. var. Gmelini (Ledeb.) Pease & Moore, 
comb. nov. Size of spikes as in the MORIS. awns tending to be 
longer, 1.2-3.3 cm. long, bent outward almost at right angles, or, at 
least, strongly recurved. 
Triticum caninum L. var. Gmelini Ledeb. Flora Alt. i, 118 (1829); 
Ic. Pl. nov. imperf. cogn. Flor. Ross. iii, 16, t. 248 (1831), na 
according to Scribn. & Sm. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. no. 4, 
31 (Feb. 6, 1897), not Triticum Gmelini Trin. ex Schrad. in Linnaea, 
xii, 467 (1838), “radix repens." 
Agropyrum caninum (L.) Beauv. var. Gmelini Ledeb., according 
to Vasey, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, x, 128 (Dec. 1883), publ. without 
reference to a previously described plant and hence invalid. 
Agropyron Gmelini (Ledeb.) Scribn. & Sm. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. 
Agrost. Bull. no. 4, 30 (Feb. 6, 1897). 
Specimens examined: Wyomina, Meeteetse Creek, 1897 (T. A. 
Williams, no. 2911); Telephone Mines, Albany Co., August 1, 1900 
(A. Mac no. 7892): CoLorapo, Silver Plume, August 24, 1895 
(P. A. Rydberg, no. 2453): Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., August 14—20, 
1896 (C. L. Shear, no. 1013): Ipano, Mt. Chauvet, July 29, 1879 
(P. A. Rydberg and E. A. Bessey, no. 3712): CALIFORNIA, Carson 
Pass (W. H. Brewer, Cal. State Surv. no. 2118). 
12? A. caninum (L.) Beauv. var. GMELINI (Ledeb.) Pease & 
1 Besides this difference from the common White Mountain plant, the sterile shoots are 
more abundant, a character which is not likely to prove important. 
2 Nos. 7-12, incl. do not average as tall as nos. 1-6. incl, seldom having to be bent to 
get them on toa sheet. | Nos. 13 and 14 are of like stature with nos. 1—6. 
