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the long acuminate point; upper sheath enclosing the base of the 
panicle, which is narrow, erect, and 6-8 inches long, the branches in 
twos or threes and appressed; outer glumes unequal, lower one 6-7 
lines, upper about 5 lines long, both 3-nerved, acuminate; flowering- 
glume 3-5 lines long, hairy, hairs longer above, and at the apex form- 
ing a white crown a line or more long; awn rather slender, 8-9 lines 
long, not hairy; stipe short, very acute, pubescent; palet less than a 
line long, obtuse and adherent to the grain. 
^ Differs from S. viridula particularly in the unequal glumes, the 
hairy crowned flowering-glumes, the more slender awn, and the very 
short palet. 
Collected on dry hill-sides at Sante Fe, New Mexico. 
J Festuca coNFiNis.— Culms about 3 ft. high, rather rigid, smooth, 
radical leaves half as long as the culm, those of the culm 2 or 3, the 
sheath loose and shorter than the internodes, blade flat, 6 inches long, 
3 lines wide, ligule short, scarious, obtuse; panicle 4-5 inches long 
strict; branches in twos or threes, unequal, erect, the longest twice as 
long as the internodes, subdivided below the middle, rhachis and 
branches nearly smooth; spikelet oblong, 3- to 5-flo\vered, the outer 
glumes ovate-lanceolate, thin, smooth, i-nerved, the upper one about 
3 Imes long, the lower a little shorter; flowering-glumes about 3 lines 
long, prominently 3-nerved, scabrous, rather rigid, rounded on the 
back, acutish to very acute, but not awned; palet about equaling its 
glume, scabrous-ciliate on the keels, adherent to the grain. 
_ This differs from Poa chiefly in the rigidity of the culms and the 
thicker, harsher, more rounded flowering-glumes. 
Collected at Peu Gulch, Colorado, altitude 8,000 ft. 
^ Elvmus Saundersii.— Culms tufted, 2-3 ft. high, slender but 
firm, smooth; radical leaves involute-setaceous, about half as long as 
the culm, culm-leaveg about 3, the sheaths smooth, the upper one 
long, the blade rigid, 5-6 inches long, finely scabrous, becoming 
involute, hgule obsolete; panicle 5-7 inches long, rather cylindrical 
and flexible, rhachis with 20 or more joints, which are 3 to 4 li"^^ 
apart; spikelets 2- to 4-flo\vered, generally in pairs, at least below, 
frequently singly above and sometimes 'throughout; upper glumes 
linear-lanceolate, 3- to 5-nerved below, with 2 short teeth at the apex 
scabrous on the raidnerve and running into a slender scabrous awn 
an inch or more in length; flowering-glumes lanceolate, 5-nerved, 
finely scabrous, 2-toothed at apex, 5 lines long to the awn, which is 
slender and i to 1.5 inch long; palet wide and flat, nearly as long 
as Its glume, bifid, scabrous on the 2 sharply flexed keels. The whole 
spike generally of a purple color. 
One of the handsomest species of the genus. Collected at Veta 
Pass, Colorado, 9,000 ft. altitude. 
On the Existence of a Peculiar Flora on the Kittatinny Mountains 
of North-western New Jersey. 
By N. L. Brixton. 
The occurrence of a group of plants which, from preconceived 
notions, seem to be out of'place in any region, is always of interest to 
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