Panicles about 8 cm. long, rachis and branches sparingly iiilose, branches 

 fasciculate at the nodes, ascending, few-flowered. Spikelcts ovate, obtuse, 

 2.5 mm. long, pale, or purplish at the base , first glume triangular, pubescent, 

 less than 1 mm. long ; second and third glumes about equal, densely pubes- 

 cent with short spreading hairs, the third glume enclosing a hyaline palea 

 a little over one-half as long as tbe glume; flowering glume ovate, 2 mm. 

 long. 



Type specimens collected in a moist meadow at the edge of pine forests at Castle 

 Crag, near Mt. Shasta, California, by Louis A. Greata, June, 1899. 



Related to the common and widely distributed Panicum uticijjliyUinn Trin. 

 (P. pubescens of authors, not Lamarck), but is at once distinguished by its 

 larger spikelets. In some respects it resembles Famcuvi seribnerianum 

 Nash, but it is not closely related to that species. 



PANICUM FUNSTONI sp. nov. 



A slender tufted, nearly glabrous perennial 4 to 7 dm. high, with numerous, 

 ascending leaves, slender erect culms, exserted ovate panicles and small spike- 

 lets. Culms at first simple, becoming much branched, sparingly appressed- 

 pubescent or glabrous. Sheaths shorter than the internodes, striate, glabrous 

 except on the ciliate margins ; ligule a prominent fringe of hairs ii mm. long , 

 leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, those of the primary culm 5 to 7 cm. long, 

 6 to 8 mm. wide, acute, slightly clasping at the base, glabrous except on the 

 scabrous margin which is often papillate ciliate at the base, those of the 

 branches much smaller, crowded, the upper ones often minutely puberulent 

 beneath. Panicles 4 to 5 cm. long, ovate, the rachis and branches glabrous; 

 secondary panicles small, few-flowered, mostly enclosed in the upper sheaths. 

 Spikelets ovate, 1.5 mm. long or slightly less; first glume very small, less 

 than 0.5 mm. long; second and third glumes rather densely pubescent with 

 short spreading hairs, the second slightly shorter than the flowering glume. 



Type specimen collected on the bank of Kaweah River at Three Rivers, Tulare 

 Coimty, Cal., No. 1286, Coville & Funston, July 26. 1891. No. 142 Dr. Ezra 

 Michener, Sacramento, Cal., August 31, 1894, is also referred here, although 

 it differs from the type in its more lax habit of growth, thinner leaves and 

 glabrous culms. 



This species is very distinct from any other from the P?,cific slope, and is appar- 

 ently not closely related to any of those of the Eastern States. It is distin- 

 guished by its tall, slender culms, numerous crowded leaves on the branches, 

 and small pubescent spikelets, the second glume being shorter than the 

 flowering glume. "We take pleasure in naming it for General Funston who 

 first collected it. 



It is the Panicmn dicJiotomitm of the Botany of the Death Valley Expedition, 

 Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 216. 1893. 



4. A NKW SPECIES OF POA. 



POA APERTA Scribn. & Merrill sp. nov. 



A lax, loosely tufted, glabrous, glaucous, perennial, 4 to 5 dm. high, from creep- 

 ing rootstocks, with wiry spreading culms, linear leaves and open, few- 

 flowered panicles 4 to 8 cm. long. Culms terete, branching below, genicu- 

 late and rooting at the lower nodes. Sheaths striate, the lower ones mar- 

 cescent, crowded; ligule membranceous, acute, 2 to 3 mm. long, decurrent 

 as a rather prominent white sheath margin ; leaf-blades rather firm, striate, 

 minutely scabrous, glaucous, acute, those of the innovations 10 to 16 cm. 

 long, about 2 mm. wide, those of the culm shorter. Panicle exserted, ovate 

 in outline, rigid, branches spreading or reflexed, scabrous, tlie lower ones 

 2 to 2.5 cm. long, bearing about 3 spikelets, the upper ones solitary, shorter. 



