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Diarrhena setacea Roem. and Schult., Syst. Veg. 1: 289. 1817. Based on 



Festuca setacea Poir. 

 Brachypodium festucoides Link, Enum. PL 1: 95. 1821. Based on Festuca 



tenella L. (error for Willd.). 

 Festuca tenella var. glauca Nutt., Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans, (n.s.) 5: 147. 1837. 



Fort Smith, Ark., Nuttall. 

 Vulpia tenella Heynh., Nom. 1: 854. 1840. Based on Festuca tenella Willd. 

 Festuca tenella var. aristulata Torr., U.S. Rept. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4 fl : 156. 



1856. Name only. Napa Valley, Calif., Bigelow. 

 Festuca gracilenta Buckl., Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1862: 97. 1863. North- 

 ern Texas, Buckley. 

 Festuca pusilla Buckl., Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1862: 98. 1863. Cali- 

 fornia, Nuttall. Fernald (Rhodora 34: 211. 1932) refers this to F. octoflora 



var. hirtella. 

 Festuca octoflora aristulata Torr.; L. H. Dewey, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 2: 



547. 1894. Texas. 

 Vulpia octoflora Rydb., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 538. 1909. Based on Festuca 



octoflora Walt. 

 Gnomonia octoflora Lunell, Amer. Midi. Nat. 4: 224. 1915. Based on Festuca 



octoflora Walt. 

 Festuca octoflora var. tenella Fernald, Rhodora 34: 209. 1925. Based on F. 



tenella Willd. 

 Festuca octoflora var. glauca Fernald, Rhodora 34: 209. 1925. Based on F. 



tenella var. glauca Nutt. 

 Festuca octoflora var. hirtella Piper, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 10: 12. 



1906. Santa Catalina Mountains, Ariz., Shear 1962. (Published as F. 



octoflora hirtella.) 

 (31) Festuca ovina L., Sp. PI. 73. 1753. Europe. 



Festuca ovina var. vivipara L., Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1: 108. 1762. Sweden. 

 Bromus ovinus Scop., Fl. Cam. 1: 77. 1772. Based on Festuca ovina L. 

 Avena ovina Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. 22. 1796. Based on Festuca ovina L. 

 Festuca ovina var. duriuscula A. Gray; Port, and Coult., Syn. Fl. Colo. 150. 



1874. Not F. ovina var. duriuscula Koch, 1837. Name only, for alpine 



specimens from Colorado [Hall and Harbour 665]. No reference to F. 



duriuscula L. 

 Festuca amethystina var. asperrima Hack.; Beal, Grasses N.Amer. 2: 601. 1896. 



Arizona, Rusby 901. 

 Festuca minuti flora Rydb., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 608. 1905. Cameron 



Pass, Colo., Baker. 

 Festuca ovina calligera Piper, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 10: 27. 1906. Based 



on F. amethystina var. asperrima Hack. 

 Festuca saximontana Rydb., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 536. 1909. Banff, 



Alberta, MacCalla 2331. 

 Festuca calligera Rydb., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 537. 1909. Based on F. 



ovina calligera Piper. 

 Gnomonia ovina Lunell, Amer. Midi. Nat. 4: 224. 1915. Based on Festuca 



ovina L. 

 Festuca ovina subsp. saximontana St. Yves, Candollea 2: 245. 1925. Based on 



F. saximontana Rydb. 

 Festuca ovina subsp. saximontana var. rydbergii St. Yves, Candollea 2: 245. 



1925. Based on F. saximontana Rydb. 

 Festuca brevifolia var. utahensis St. Yves, Candollea 2: 257. 1925. Wasatch 



Mountains, Utah; Colorado, Baker 175. 

 Festuca ovina var. brachyphylla (Schult.) Piper, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 



10: 27. 1906. Based on F. brachyphylla Schult. (Published as F. ovina 



brachyphylla.) 

 Festuca brevifolia R. Br., Sup. App. Parry's Voy. 289. 1824. Not F. brevifolia 



Muhl., 1817. Melville Island, Arctic America. 

 Festuca brachyphylla Schult., Mant. 3 (Add. 1): 646. 1827. Based on F. 



brevifolia R. Br. 

 Festuca ovina var. brevifolia S. Wats., in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 389. 



1871. Based on F. brevifolia R. Br. 

 Festuca ovina subsp. saximontana var. purpusiana St. Yves, Candollea 2: 247. 



1925. Farewell Gap, Calif., Purpus 3076, 5117. 

 Festuca ovina var. duriuscula (L.) Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv. 812. 1837. 



Based on F. duriuscula L. 

 Festuca duriuscula L., Sp. PI. 74. 1753. Europe. 



