q le. Ae Ghurberiana Hitche. ——__>Sulms tufted, slender, rather weak, 
10-45 cme tall; leaves mostly eract in a basal cluster; sheaths smooth; 
ligules obtuse, about 1 im. long; blades flat, 5-10 om. long, 1-2 mn. 
| wide, scaberulous or nearly smooth; panicles flexuous, 5-10 om. long, 
the branches slender, Spreading, in distant fascicles, naked below; glumes 
l-nerved, 2 ma. long, glabrous, or somewhat scabrous on the keel; lemmas 
as long as the glumes, awnoless, 3-nerved, glabrous, the callus with a few 
short hairs; palea present, nearly as long as the lemma; rachilla prolonged 
behind the palea as a minute bristle. 
Wet meadows and mossy places. 
Ze Ae rs—Hude. edtop. —s Culms erect or decumbent at the base, 
as much as 120 cm. tall; sheaths smooth: ligules prominent, 2-5 mn. long; 
blades flat, scabrous, rather firm, 5-15 cm. long, 2=7 mme, mostly 3-5 mn., 
wide; panicles open, mostly 10-30 em. long, the lower branches in whorls, 
at least some of them Spikelet-bearing from near the base; glumes 2-3 mn. 
long, glabrous except the scabrous kee 3; lemmas obtuse, a little shorter 
than the glumes, awnless; palea as much as two-thirds as long as the 
lemma. (Ae palust®is Huds. 
licadows, fields, roadsides and waste places. 
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de Ae diegoensis Vasey. —sCulis erect ywith Slender rhizomes)\90-cm. tall; i 
sheaths smooth or scabrous; ligules 5 iim long; blades flat, very scabrous 
on both surfaces, 10-15 om. long, 2-4 mm. wide; panicles narrow but open, 
20 cme long, the branches Slender, distant in fascicles, naked below, short 
ones intermixed, making the branches appear to be spikelet-bearing from the 
base; glumes 3 mm. long, scabrous on the keel, the first i-nerved, the second 
l=3-nerved; lemmas thin, membranaceous, o-nerved, 2 mme long, awnless; palea 
wanting. (A. foliosa Vasey). am 
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