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q- luelica L. Onion Grass. 
Tall pergnnials with closed sheaths, and flat blades, the bases of the 
culms,swollen into distinct corms. Spikelets several flowered, disarticulating 
above the glumes and between the florets, bearing one to three gradually smaller 
empty lemmas above the fertile florets; glumes unequal, membranaceous, acute or 
obtuse; len as firm, rounded on the back, prominently Several-nerved, acuminate 
or obtuse, awnl SSe' 
O Culms bulboge at the base 
‘& Butbs narrowly ovoid; lemnas acuminate 1. Me subulata 
2 Bulvs globose; lemnas obtuse 2. Me spectabilis 
f Culms not mulbosh at the base 3.°M. Gmithii 
1. Me subulata (Griseb.) Scribn.—7Alaska Onion Grass. Culms erect or 
ascending, smooth or usually scabrous, 40-110 om. usually about 90 om. tall: 
coms ovoid; sheaths overlapping at least below, distinctly retrorsely scabrous 
and often retrorsely pilose as well; blades flat, scabrous on both surfaces ; 
5=25 Cme long, 2-7 mn. wide; panicles narrow, 6=20 cme long, the branches distant 
appressed, few-flowered, floriferous fran near the base; spikelets linear ‘ 
15-20 mm. long; glumes membranaceous, oblong-lanceolate, the first Sabu od 
S mne long, the secod 5-7-nerved, 8 mm. long, scabrous on the nerves; leumas 
long-acuminate, 10-12 mm. long, 7-nerved, hispid on the nerves, especially the 
lateral ones, sometimes sparsely so. 
Open woods, hillsides, and canyons. 
ae hie Spectabilis Scribn. —_—>Culms erect, 40-100 em. tall; corms globose; 
eaths overlapping, scabrous; blades flat or loosely folded, attenuate into 
rather fine point, scabrous on both surfaces, 10-20 om. long, 2=4 mm. wide; 
anicles narrow but open, 10-20 om. long, the branches Simple, distant, ascend- 
ng or spreading, slender, somewhat flexous; -spikelets on slender, usually 
lexuous pedicels, 8=15 mmm. long, prominently tinged with purple; glumes ovate 
r oblong, usually rather abruptly narrowed near the summit; the first 1-3-nerved 
€ mme long, the secmd 5=7-nerved, 6-8 mm. long; lemmas broad, narrowed above ; 
1¢ middle into an obtuse or subacute, hyaline apex, Scaorous, 7-9-nerved, the 
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LJ3. M. gmithii (Porter) Vasey. Culms slender, erect, mostly 1-1.5 m. tall; sheaths 
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shofter than the internodes, scabrous; ligule thin, hyaline, 4-5 mm long:blades thin, 
flat, lex, scabrous at least on the margins, 6-12 mm. wide; panicles 15-25 cm. long, 
the branches solitary, distant, spreading or reflexed, spikelet bearing only on the 
upper half; svikelets purplish, 2-6-flowered; lower lemma 10-14 mm, long, acuminate, 
minutely toothed, scabrous, the awn 3-5 mm long. 
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