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POACEAE 



10. Festuca microstachys Xuit. 

 Nuttall's Fescue. Fig. 513. 



Fcsfiica microstachys Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. 1: 187. 

 1848. 



Culms erect, glabrous, 10-30 cm. tall; sheaths 

 smooth or sparsely pubescent; ligule nearly obso- 

 lete ; blades flat or loosely involute ; panicle erect, 

 4-10 cm. long, often nearly simple, the spikelets 

 1-3-flowered, finally reflexed, rather distant ; 

 glumes glabrous ; lemmas pubescent. - 



Open ground in the Transition Zone; California; rare 

 (Pasadena, Costella, Napa City). Apr.-May. Type locality: 

 Los Angeles. 



11. Festuca tracyi Hitchc. ii. sp. 

 Tracy's Fescue. Fig". 514. 



Annual ; culms erect, smooth, 30-60 cm. tall ; sheaths 

 pubescent ; ligule very short ; blades glabrous, narrow, 

 loosely involute, 3-6 cm. long; panicle 4-8 cm. long, a 

 simple raceme or compound, the lower as much as 3 

 cm. long, widely spreading ; spikelets mostly 1-3- 

 flowered, the pedicels divaricately spreading or reflexed. 

 about 0.5 mm. long; glumes rather sparsely hispid-vil- 

 lous, slightly unequal in length, the first narrow, 1- 

 nerved. 2-3 mm. long, the second 3-nerved ; lemmas 

 glabrous, about 4 mm. long, the awns 4-7 mm. long. 

 The species has the aspect of F. castwoodae and F. 

 refle.va but differs in having pubescent glume- and gla- 

 brous lemmas. 



Type specimen collected at head of Moore's Creek, 3-4 miles 

 east of Angwin's, Howell Mountain, Napa County, California, 

 May IS, 1902, by J. P. Tracy (no. 1479). No other collection 

 is known. 



12. Festuca eastwoodae Piper. 

 Eastwood's Pescue. Fig. 515. 



Festuca castzcoodac Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10: 16. 

 1906. 



Culms erect, glabrous, as much as 30 cm. tall; 

 sheaths glabrous or puberulent, the lower overlapping: 

 ligule minute ; blades soft, loosely involute, attenu- 

 ate, puberulent or glabrous ; panicle 10 cm. long, axis 

 and branches pubescent; spikelets finally divaricate; 

 glume and lemmas densely pubescent ; awns 3-6 mm. 

 long. 



Open pine forests, rare. Type specimen from Santa Lucia 

 Mountains, California (Eastwood). The only other specimen 

 known is from Volcano, California, the collector unknown. 



