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sheaths ciHate, dilated ; leaves 6-9" long ; panicle short, spicate, usually 
sheathed at base; spikelets few, glumes 3 J" ^oug, acuminate, pm'plish; lower 
palet of the nearly sessile florets 2" long, very villous at base, lobes rounded 
at the apex, lateral nerves marginal and but shortly produced ; upper palets 
one-half shorter, oblanceolate, acutely 2-lobed at the apex, the nerves obscure, 
marginal and slightly ciliate, the palet of the lower flower the larger ; lower 
palet of the perfect flower similar but naked at base, the lateral lobes narrower 
and attenuate upward, the middle awn somewhat margined above llie sinus ; 
upper palet ovate, 2-lobed at the apex, the lobes rounded and irregulai-ly 
short-seri'ate. — Found on dry l)arreu foot-hills of the Trinity i\rounlains, 
Nevada; 4,500 feet altitude ; May; also found by Dr. Torrey on foot-hills 
east of Carson Sink. Plate XL. Fig. 10. A plaul ; natural size. Fig. 11. 
Glumes. Fig. 12. Lower neutral florets. Figs. 13 and 14. Their upper 
palets. Fig. 15. Perfect flower and terminal rudiment. Fig. 16. Ui)per 
palet; all magnified four diameters. (1,300.) 
KcELERiA CRISTATA, Pers. From Pennsylvania to Illinois and the Sas- 
katchewan, thence south and westward to Arkansas, Northern Texas, Colo- 
rado, Utah, Northern California and Washington Teri'itory. Antolop*) Island 
in Salt Lake, and in the Wahsatch ; 4,500-6,000 feet ahitude ; June. (1 ,301.) 
Eatonia obtusata. Gray. From Pennsylvania to Florida and westward 
to Wisconsin and the Saskatchewan, Arkansas and Texas ; i\I()no Lake, Cali- 
fornia, (Bolander.) Truckee and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 
5-6,500 feet altitude ; July, August. (1,302.) 
Melica poiEoiDES, Nutt. Plant. Gambel, Jour. Acad. Phil, n. s., 1. 188. 
Culms erect, slender, 1^-2° high, often enlarged and bulb-like at base, 
slightly scabrous above, nodes naked ; sheaths lonijfer than the intcrnodcs and 
scabrous, the ligules usually long and lacerated ; leaves scabrous, mostly flat 
and elongated, 1-2'' wide ; panicle narrow and often intcrrnpf cd, tlic blanches 
unequal and erect, subscabrous, rarely spreading ; s[)ikt'lc1s crcr-t and scarcely 
secund, 3-5-flowered, usually more or less purple; glumes obtuse or ;iciitisli, 
glabrous, 5-nerved ; lower palet about 4" long, 7-nerved, ])ul>ernleiH (Ui the 
back, membranous-margined, rather o])tuse; upper palet pubescent on the 
nerves, erose-truncate ; grain 2" long. — The sj)ikelet is at l\r>\ cl(*se and lit- 
tle longer than the glumes, becoming more open ami somewhat loiiirer. The 
lower palet is described by Nutfall as but 5-nerved. Calitbrnia to Oregon, 
