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Poa alpina f L.J Monutaiu Si)eai'-gTass. 



Conniion iu the Carex meadows of Round Valley, altitude 

 9000 ft. (No. 2482.) 



Poa Buckleyana Nash, Bull. Ton-. Club xxii. 465 (1895) . Buneh 

 Red-top. 



Beneath pines of the south and west sides at 5000-6000 ft. 

 alt. (Xos. 2064, 2257.) 



Poa Howellii Chandler! J>anj, var. nov. Chandler's Meadow- 

 fjrass. 



Stems 3.5 to o.-^ dm. high: leaves smooth; sheaths some- 

 what inflated; ligule scarious, white, truncate, dentate, 2 to 4 

 mm. long; blades fiat, acute, 3 to 5 em. long, 5 mm. wide: 

 panicle but little exserted (at least in young plants), 7 to 13 cm. 

 long; branches sparsely scabrid, remote, the lowest in whorls of 

 3 to 5, the whorls 2.5 to 3.5 cm. apart; lowest branches very 

 unequal, 1.5 to 7 cm. long, spikelet-bearing only on the upper 

 half: spikelets 4.5 to 5 mm. long, 2-flowered; empty glumes 

 minutely puberulent and serrate, broad, the lower 2 mm. long, 

 acute, 1-nerved, upper about 3 mm. long, emarginate, 3-nerved; 

 rachilla smooth, internodes 1.5 mm. long; flowering glumes 

 scabrid, 3 mm. long, acute, sparingly webbed at base with a 

 long thin wel); stamens 3, anthers 1.5 mm. long. 



Type specimen collected in Shackleford Canon, near Marble 

 Mt., Siskiyou Co., about 1800 meters (6000 ft.) alt., June, 1901, 

 (Harley P. Chandler, no. 1703). Since collected in the San 

 Jacinto Mts., Southern California, in damp places in the vicinity 

 of Deer Springs, at 2760 meters (9000 ft.) alt., July, 1901 (H. 

 M. Hall, no. 2573.5), and in Round Valley at 2800 meters (9200 

 ft.) alt. (H. M. Hall, no. 2594). 



The type is in the Herbarium of the University of Califoi-nia. 



This plant closely resembles the species in aspect, but difi:Vrs 

 in the smaller panicde, longer but fewer-flowered spikelets, and 

 the lack of prominent pubescence. 



Polypogon Monspeliensis fL.J Desf. Beard Grass. 



This grass has been introduced into Strawberry and Thomas 

 valleys. (No. 2274.) 



