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Type No. 4897 C. G. Pringle, PI. Mex. 1SH4, '^ierni de San Felipe, alt. 9500 ft., State 



of Oaxaca. 

 The above description is from the specimen of the above number in the National 



Herbarium. The species has not been reported from the United States, but it 



may extend this side the Mexican border. It resembles very closely small 



forms of B. pobjantlms iMnicuIfitm. 



SPECIES EXCLUDED. 



Bromus g-iganteus L. Sp. Pi. 1 

 Bromus secundus J. S. Presl 



in ('. P.. Presl, Peliq. 



Haenk. 1: 263. 1830. 



"Tlab in sinu Nootka"^ 



Festuca rubra secunda 



(Presl.) Scribn. Kept. Mo. 



Bot. Gard. 10: .39. 1899. 

 Bromus subulatus (xriseV). in 



Ledel^. Fl. Hos. 4: 358. 



1853.=M;elica subulata 



Scribn. Proi-. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phil. 1885: 47. 1885. 



SPECIES DOUBTFUL OR 

 UNKNOWN. 



Bromus depauperatus, J. S. 

 Presl in C. B. Presl, Reliq. 

 Haenk. 1: 263. 1830. "Ra- 

 dice repente, culiud jjlabro, 

 foliis planis vaginisque 

 scabris, panicula secunda 

 nutanti'siuiplicilaxapaten- 

 tissima, locustis subtrifloris, 

 paleis inferioribus tereti- 

 usculis trinerviis scabris. 

 Hab. in sinu Nootka. 2/ . " 

 ' ' Similis Bromo aspero, Ra- 

 dix repens, firma, crassa, 

 fusca, multas fibras emit- 

 tens. Culmus sedecim pol- 

 lices altus inferne crassitie 

 pennte anatinse, erectus 

 teres, striatus glaber. Nodi 

 fusci, scabri. Vaginae elon- 

 gatse, arete adpresse, 

 striata-, versus collum scabriuscuke. 



17,53. ^Festuca g-ig-antea Will<l. 



Fig. iO.— Bromus Uiciniatus: a, empty glumes with two florets, 

 h, dorsal view of a flowering glume. 



Ligula: niargo angustissimus, fimbriolatus. 

 Folia vaginis longiora duas et dimidiam lineani lata, liuearia, plana, utrinque 

 scabra. Panicula quinquepolliceslonga, laxa, secunda, nutans. Rhachis inferne 

 teretiuscula glabra, superne angulata scabra. Rami alternatim binati, fiexuosi, 

 angulati, scabri, joaucas locustas ge rentes. Pedunculi locusta breviores, ramis con- 

 formes. Locustte lanceolate, tri-biflora?, virescenti flavie. Glum;e locusta triplo 

 breviores, ovato-lanceolatae, setaceo-terminatee, glabrte, inferior minor uninervia, 

 superior fere duplo longior trinervia. Flosculi subulati, teretes, distantes. 

 Rhachicula fiexuosa, scabriuscula. Palea inferior ovato-lanceolato in apicem 



