979 
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2. De intermedia Vasey, Timber Oatgrass, vulms tufted, erect, 20-45 cm, 
+211; sheaths smooth or pubescent with a tuit of hairs at the mouth; blades 
flat or becoming involute, smooth, scaberulous or pilose, 5-10 cm, long, 
1-3 mn, wide; inflorescence dense, 5-7 cm. long, the branches short and 
appressed; spikelets 10-15 rm, long; lemmas glabrous on the back, pilose 
on the margins, rather abruptly narrowed into the short aristate teeth. 
‘loist meadows, alkaline soil, and rocky ledges, 
3e De unispicata llunro. Similar to Ll. californica; culms 15-20 cm, tall; 
sheaths retrorsely long-pilose, sometimes densely so; blades rather short, 
clustered toward the bese, scabrous or pilose; inflorescence reduced to 
@. single spikelet, sometimes two but the lower then short-pedicellate and 
appressed; spikelets as in D, californica, 
Dry hilis and prairies. voeur d'Alene; head of Little Potlatch it. 
4. De spicata (Le) Beauv. Culms densely tufted, erect, as much as 80 cme 
tall; sheaths glabrous or sparsely pilose; blades flat, narrow, becoming 
curled with age, those on the innovations usually involutes; panicle 2-6 
em, long, the branches one-jto few-flowered, appressed; glumes acuminate, 
mostly 10-12 cm, long; lemmas 4-5 mm, long, sparsely pilose on the back 
and on the margins, abruptly narrowed, the teeth acute or acuminate, not 
aristate,. 
Dry open woods and rocky soil, friest R., Christ 1177. 
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