GRASS FAMILY 



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13. Festuca confinis \'ase_v. 

 Spiked Fescue. 



Fig. 516. 



Poa kinyii S. Wats, in King. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 387. 



1S71, not F. kingiana Steud., 1854. 

 Festuca confinis Vasey, Bull. Torrey Club 11: 126. 1884. 

 Festuca kingii Cassidy, Colo. Agr. Exp. .Sta. Bull. 12: 36. 



1890. 

 Festuca watsoiii Xash in Brilton Man. 148. 1901. 

 Hesperochloa kingii Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 39: 106. 



1912. 

 M'asatcliia kingii Jones, Contr. West Bot. 14: 16. 1912. 



Culms stout, erect, glabrous. 40-100 cm. tall ; 

 rhizomes usually present ; sheaths smooth, striate ; 

 blades hrm. flat or loosely involute, coarsely striate, 

 3-6 mm. wide ; panicle narrow, erect, 7-20 cm. long, 

 the branches short and appressed. floriferous nearly 

 to base ; glumes broadly lanceolate, subscarious, 

 nearly smooth, the hrst 3-4 mm. long, the second 

 a half longer : lemmas ovate, acuminate, convex, 

 faintly nerved, scabrous all over the back, 5-8 

 mm. long. 



Dry meadows and hills, in the Transition Zone; Oregon 

 to southern California, east to Montana and Colorado. 

 June-Aug. Type locality: Colorado. 



14. Festuca elatior L. 

 Meadow Fescue. Fig. 517. 



Festuca elatior L. Sp. PI. 75. 1753. 



smooth ; 

 ; panicle 



Culms smooth, 50-120 cm. tall ; sheaths 

 blades flat, 4-8 mm. wide ; scabrous above 

 erect, or nodding at summit, 10-20 cm. long, contracted 

 after flowering, much-branched or nearly simple, the 

 Iiranches spikelet-bearing nearly to base ; spikelets 

 usually 6-8-flowe,red, 8-12 mm. long ; glumes 3 and 4 

 mm. long, lanceolate ; lemmas oblong-lanceolate, cori- 

 aceous, 5-7 mm. long, the scarious apex acutish, rarely 

 short-awned. 



Meadows and roadsides. A native of Europe, cultivated in 

 the United States under the name of Meadow Fescue, and 

 escaped into fields and waste places throughout the cooler portion 

 of America. Tune-July. Type locality, European. 



15. Festuca subuliflora .Scribn. 

 Coast Range Fescue. Fig. 518. 



396. 

 277. 



Festuca subuliflora Scribn. in Macoun, Cat. Can. PI. 5 



1890. 

 Festuca ambigua Vasey, Contr. U. S. Xat. Herb. 1 : 



1893. 

 Festuca denticulata Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 589. 1896. 



Culms rather slender, glabrous, 60-100 cm. tall ; 

 sheaths sparsely hispidulous ; blades flat, rather soft, 

 hirsutulous above. 3-6 mm. wide ; panicle loose, open, 

 somewhat drooping, 10-20 cm. long, the branches 

 slender, mostly solitary, naked below the middle ; 

 spikelets loosely 3-4-flowered ; glumes subulate, 

 glabrous. 1-nerved, 3 and 4 mm. long; lemmas 

 lanceolate, scabrous toward the apex, keeled above. 

 6-8 mm. long, tipped with a more or less flexuous 

 awn 10-15 mm. long, abruptly contracted at base into 

 a hispidulous tubular structure including the rachilla, 

 the latter apparently disarticulating half way be- 

 tween the florets. 



Moist places and borders of rich woods, in the Humid 

 Transition Zone; Vancouver Island to northern California in 

 the Coast Ranges. June-July. Type locality: Vancouver 

 island. 



