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of California. Creek-banks in Huntington Valley, Nevada ; 6,000 feet alti- 
tude; August. (1,289.) 
Calamageostis stricta, Trin. New England and Canada to tlic Sas- 
katclicwan ; Greenland, (Kane,) and Behring Strait ; Minnesota, (Nicolet,) 
Colorado, (Hall & Harbour,) and Washington Territory. Stream-banks in 
the East and West Humboldt Mountains and Diamond Valley, Nevada, and 
in the Salt Lake and Bear River Valleys, Utah ; 4,300-6,500 feet altitude; 
June-September. Panicle larger and less strict than described. The species 
is referred by Munro to C. Lapponica. (1,290.) 
Calamageostis sylvatica, DC. Grays Revis. Calam., Proc. Amer. 
Acad. 6. 80. Root creeping ; culm simple, erect, rather rigid, glabrous or 
scabrous below the panicle ; leaves mostly revolute, scabrous ; panicle con- 
tracted, 2-4' long, the branchlets erect; glumes ovate-lanceolate, sharply 
acuminate, about 3" long ; lower palet sca])rous, rather rigid, awned near the 
base, hairs about one-fourth as long as the palet ; rudiment elongated, plu- 
mose ; awn bent and twisted, exceeding the glumes.— Arctic Coast, the Sas- 
katchewan region, and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado ; California. East 
Humboldt Mountains ; 10,000 feet altitude ; August. (1,291.) 
Eriocoma' cuspidata, Nutt. Perennial; culms 1-2'' high, simple, 
rather rigid and somewhat scabrous ; sheaths scabrous, equahng the inter- 
nodes, the upper ones often dilated; leaves narrow, convolute, elongated, 
(2-18';) panicle frequently included at base, dicliotomously branched, the 
spikelets sohtary upon capillary peduncles ; glumes 2^-4" long, usually more 
or less purple, pubescent; outer palet deep brown, l^" long, the nearly 
straight triquetrous awn 1.1-2" long.— From New Mexico to Northern Dakota 
and the Saskatchewan, and west to Arizona, Cahfornia and Oregon. A fre- 
quent and valuable 'Mjuncli grass" through Nevada and in Utah, at 4-8,000 
feet ahitudc ; June-October. Growing in the dryest soils, and retaining its 
seeds through the season. (1,292.) 
Stipa spaetea, Trin. From Illinois and Xorlliern Michigan to the Sas- 
katchewan and Upper Missouri, and in ihe Rocky Mountains, (Lyall.) Reese 
lERIOCOMA Nutt. Spikelets l-flov lo< .so open panicle. Glnmcs thin, nearly cqiinl, 
stn..i-lv:5-neiv(.a siibvcnti icosc nt l.n.se, ntt. ;, ...i^ )..>ln.te nl.ove, soniewl.at exeeedii,- thr persistent 
ll„w. r ' Callus si, ..It, tliii k. I'.'!' ts ri-i.l. .•..via. < <.ns, tli- .nit.T ..v;il, .Irns.-ly . ov. t. .1 thnni-hout ^"ith 
loiM^ white silky hairs and trriaiiiat.Ml will, a slx.rt sluiit .h^eidunus awn. thr ..pp-'r ii.ehuled, narrower, 
s.. in-.'lv sln.rt.-r. Stam..ns ■2-?,: niith. rs .,l,lon--linear, h.-anh^d id tlir ap. x. S, :.l..^ (-..nspicuous, nearly 
e.nvilin- 1hr <.I.lon.' se.Ml.-Sl. ud. l in his drscripti..,, of Frndh rV si„-. iu.. n. f ni.d. r Fcndlma,) describes a 
neuter tlor. t as a sh,-le very thin pah-t, nui. li narrowr an<l shoit. r tl.aa th- -lumes. This is usually 
only indicated by a very short and thick process at the base of the upper palet. 
