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amabilis an escape from cultivation, for in the ‘cracker’ country 
where it was found, nothing but most common things are culti- 
vated. At Lloyd’s where it is well established along roads in low 
grounds, there is only a dinner house and a couple of stores. It 
is possible that the grass may have been grown at the so-called 
Experiment Station at Lake City, 22 miles east of Live Oak, but 
it is doubtful.” 
This species is apparently well established in northern Floirad 
and should certainly be recognized as a constituent of the flora of 
that region. 
Festuca Elmeri sp. nov. 
A weak, caespitose, pale green perennial, 6-8 dm. high, with 
long, linear, thin leaves and lax panicles. Culms glabrous. 
Sheaths slightly shorter than the internodes, strongly striate, the 
lower ones crowded and marcescent, the upper ones minutely 
scabro-pubescent between the striae ; ligule a very short minutely 
ciliate ring ; leaf-blades 2-3.5 dm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, plane, 
striate, nearly glabrous beneath, minutely scabrous or scabro- 
pubescent on the nerves above, especially the upper ones. Pani- 
cles 1-2 dm. long, pale green, the axis glabrous, the branches 
scabrous, ascending, naked below, flower-bearing at and above the 
middle, the lower ones often 1 dm. long. Spikelets 7-9 ™™. 
long, 3- or 4-flowered ; empty glumes unequal, the first about 2.5 
mm. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, the second 3-4 mm. long, 
obtuse, both slightly ciliate on the hyaline margins above ; flower- 
ing glumes about 5 mm. long, exclusive of the awn, lanceolate 
acuminate, prominently 5-nerved, rather strongly scabrous, cleft at 
the apex, forming two sharp teeth about 1 mm. long bearing 
between them a slender scabrous awn about 4 mm. in length. 
Palea very narrow, acuminate, 2-keeled, slightly exceeding the 
glumes, 
Type specimen collected by A. D, E. Elmer at Stanford Unt 
versity, Santa Clara county, California, no. 2101, April, 190% also 
secured by Le Roy Abrams from the same locality, no. 1646 May 
14, 1901. 
This species resembles Festuca Jonesii Vasey, in its habit of 
growth and in its very thin leaves, but is distinguished from that 
species by its very short ligule, much narrower leaves, mor 
flowering 
unequal empty glumes, and rather strongly scabrous 
glumes, 
