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internodes, softly retrorsely pilose; blades pubescent on both sur- 

 faces, mostly 3 to 6 mm wide; panicle mostly not more than 10 cm 

 long, few-flowered, drooping; lemmas scabrous to nearly smooth; 



Figure 28.— Bromus anomalus, X 1. (Pammel, Colo.) 



awn 5 to 7 mm long. % — Among brush, Texas (Bexar County 

 and Corpus Christi) apparently rare; northern Mexico. 



19. Bromus anomalus Rupr. Nodding brome. (Fig. 28.) Culms 

 slender, 30 to 60 cm tall, the nodes pubescent; sheaths sparsely 

 pilose to glabrous; ligule about 1 mm long; blades scabrous, mostly 

 2 to 4 mm wide; panicle about 10 cm long, 

 often less, few-flowered, drooping; first glume 

 3-nerved, the second 5-nerved, lemmas about 

 12 mm long, evenly and densely pubescent over 

 the back ; awn 2 to 4 mm long. 01 (B. porteri 

 Nash.) — Open woods, Saskatchewan and Idaho, 

 to western Texas, southern California, and 

 Mexico (fig. 29). 



Bromus anomalus var. lanatipes (Shear) 

 Hitchc. More robust, with woolly sheaths and usually broader 

 blades. 01 (B. porteri lanatipes Shear.) — Colorado to western 

 Texas and Arizona. 



20. Bromus kalmii A. Gray. (Fig. 30.) Culms slender, 50 to 

 100 cm tall, usually pubescent at and a little below the nodes; sheaths 

 usually shorter than the internodes, pilose or the upper glabrous; 



Figure 29.— Distribution of 

 Bromus anomalus. 



