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Found only in a sandy meadow of tlie sonth side at 4500 ft. 

 alt., this being along the lower edge of the pine belt. (No. 

 2037.) 



Elymus Parishii B((V}j & Merrill, sp. nov. 



Stems loosely tufted, 7 to 9 dm. high, scabrid: leaves can- 

 escently pubescent with spreading hairs; ligule a mere ring; 

 blades flat or becoming involute, 5 mm. wide, the uppermost 

 3.5 to 7 cm. long, the lowest 8 to 16 cm. long: spike 10 to 16 

 em. long, 10 mm. wide, with somewhat divergent spikelets: 

 spikelets in pairs, the lowest 1 to 2 cm. apart, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

 long excluding the awns, 3 to 5 flowered; empty glumes 11 to 

 16 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, awn-pointed; internodes of 

 rachilla 2 to 3 mm. long; flowering glumes scabrous, 10 mm. 

 long; awns 2 to 2.5 cm. long, scalu'ous. 



Type specimen collected in the San Jacinto Mountains, 

 Southern California, on wooded slopes and benches of the south 

 side, at 1460 meters (4800 ft.) alt., June, 1901, (H. M. Hall, 

 no. 2097). Also collected on the west side of the same range at 

 Box Springs, at 1600 meters (5300 ft.) alt., July, 1901, (H. M. 

 Hall, no. 2253); and at Tahquitz Valley, July, 1881, (S. B. & 

 W. F. Parish, no. 1014). 



The type is in the Herbarium of the University of California. 



The canescently pubescent sheaths and blades, somewhat 

 divergent spikelets and long awns at once distinguish this plant 

 from the other known species of Elj'mus from this state. 



Elymus pubiflorus {J. G. Smith) Bdci/, comb. nov. Sifanion 

 puhiflorum J. G. Smith, U. S. Dept. Agr. Agros. Bull, 

 xviii. 19 (1899). 



Common in dry soil and on exposed slopes from the lower 

 edge of the pine belt to an altitude of 9300 ft. (Nos. 2065, 2073, 

 2177, 2409.) 



Elymus triticoides Buckl. Slender Wild-rye. 



Collected in Thomas and Strawberry valleys and also along 

 the eastern base of the mountain. (Nos. 2122, 2177b, 2392.) 



Epicampes rigens (Bohind.) BentJi. Deer-grass. 



The Deer-gi-ass was found growing in dry soil on the West 



