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POACEAE 



3, Melica harfordii Boland. 

 Harford's Melica. Fig. 432. 



Mclica harfordii Boland. Proc. Calif. Acad. 4: 102. 1870. 

 Bromelica harfordii Farw. Rhodora 21: 78. 1919. 



Culms 60-120 cm. tall, decumbent below, smooth, 

 not bulbous at base; sbeaths smooth or villous; 

 blades scabrous, firm ; panicle narrow, the branches 

 appressed ; glumes narrow, about 6 mm. long, 

 obtuse; lemmas 7-nerved, pilose on lower part of 

 margin, the apex emarginate, mucronate or shortr 

 awned ; awn less than 2 mm. long. 



Open dry woods and slopes, British Columbia south in 

 the Coast ]Ranges to Monterey County. June-July. Type 

 locality: Santa Cruz road near Lexington, California. 



Melica harfordii minor Vasey, Bull. Torrey Club 15: 48. 

 1888. (Melica harfordii tcnuior Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 11: 127. 1906. Bromelica harfordii minor Farw. 

 Rhodora 21: 78. 1919.) Culms more slender, mostly less 

 than 50 cm. tall; blades short and narrow, about 1 mm. 

 wide, mostly involute. Washington and Oregon (Siskiyou 

 Mountains, the type locality; McKenzie River). July. 



4. Melica subulata (Griseb.) Scribn. 

 Alaska Onion-grass. Fig 433. 



Bromiis siibniatus Griseb. in Ledeb. FI. Ross. 4: 358. 1853. 

 Fcstuca ccpacca Phil. Linnaea 33: 297. 1865. 

 Melica acuminata Boland. Proc. Calif. Acad. 4: 104. 1870. 

 Melica subulata Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1885: 47. 1885. 

 Melica cepacea Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Circ. 30 : 



8. 1901. 

 Bromelica subulata Farw. Rhodora 21: 78. 1919. 



Culms 60-120 cm. tall, bulbous at base; panicle 

 narrow, the branches appressed or sometimes spread- 

 ing; spikelets narrow, 2-2.5 cm. long, loosely several- 

 flowered ; glumes narrow, obscurely nerved, the sec- 

 ond about 8 mm. long, shorter than the lower lemma ; 

 lemmas prominently 7-nerved, gradually narrowed 

 to an acuminate point, awnless. the keel and marginal 

 nerves pilose-ciliate. 



Meadows, banks, and shady slopes, Alaska to Lake Tahoe 

 and Mount Tamalpais, east to Wyoming, May-July. Type lo- 

 cality: Unalaska. 



5. Melica geyeri Alunro. 

 ■ Geyer's Onion-grass. Fig. 434. 



Melica geyeri Munro; Boland. Proc. Calif. Acad. 4: 103. 



1870. 

 Melica bromoides Boland.; A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 



409. 1872. 

 Bromelica geyeri Farw. Rhodora 21: 78. 1919. 



Culms 1-1.5 meters tall, bulbous at base; sheaths 

 glabrous or sometimes pubescent ; blades scabrous, 

 fiat ; panicle open, the lower branches slender, 

 spreading, bearing a few spikelets above the middle; 

 spikelets narrow, 12-20 mm. long ; glumes broad, 

 smooth, papery, the second about 6 mm. long ; lem- 

 mas scaberulous, obtuse, awnless. 



Wooded ravines and along streams, Oregon to cential 

 California; also in British Columbia. May-July. Type lo- 

 cality: Russian River Valley. 



