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7. Festuca grayi (Abrams) Piper. 

 Gray's Fescue. Fig. 510. 



Festuca microstachvs ciliata Gray; Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 



585. 1S96. 

 Festuca microstachvs grayi Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 52. 1904. 

 Festuca grayi Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10: 14. pi. 3. 



1906. 



ll;il)it of F. I^acififa but somewhat stouter; sheaths 

 and sometimes blades pubescent; glumes glabrous or 

 more or less villous ; lemmas pubescent or puberulent, 

 or sometimes villous. 



Open ground and rocky slopes, in the Transition Zone; 

 Oregon to California and Arizona. May-June. Type locality: 

 Grants Pass, Oregon. 



8, Festuca arida Elmer. 

 Desert Fescue. Fig. 511. 



Festuca arida Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 36: 52. 1903. 



Culms erect or spreading, mostly less than 15 cm. 

 tall; sheaths glabrous; blades glabrous, loosely in- 

 volute, mostly less than 4 cm. long; panicle narrow, 

 2-5 cm. long, the branches appressed or the lower- 

 most somewhat spreading; glumes about equal, 

 glabrous, 5-6 mm. long ; lemmas densely woolly, 

 about 5 mm. long, the awn 5-10 mm. long. 



Sandy or dry ground, in the Transition Zone; eastern 

 Washington (Coulee City, North Yakima), western Nevada 

 and eastern California (Truckee, Jess Valley to Blue Lake, 

 Doyle Station). May-July. Type locality: North Yakima. 



9. Festuca confusa Piper. 

 Hairy-leaved Fescue. Fig. 512. 



Festuca confusa Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10: 13. /'/. 1. 

 19C6. 



Habit of F. paciUca but commonly lower and more 

 slender; sheaths and blades pubescent; axis and branches 

 of the panicle ciliate on the angles ; spikclets 2-3 flowered ; 

 glumes hirsute; lemma attenuate, the awn often somewhat 

 fle.xuous. 



Dry hillsides, in the Arid Transition Zone; Washington to 

 middle California. May-June. Type locality: west Klickitat 

 County, Washington. 



