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and leaves scabrous ; leaves mostly radical and narrower, 1-2" wide, 3-6' 
long, the cauline few and very short or nearly obsolete ; ligule short ; panicle 
loose and spreading, the short (1' long or less) branches in pairs or solitary ; 
spikelets 3-5" long and 1 J" broad, 4-G-flowered, purplish ; glumes acutish ; 
imlets very villous on the back and margins, obtuse and carinatc, but less 
flattened and less strongly nerved than in the last. — Found by Prof. Daniel 
C. Eaton in a rocky gulch of Cottonwood Caiion in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 
feet altitude; June. Very similar specimens have also been collected by Dr. 
Bloomer near Virginia City, Nevada. 
PoA (?) KiNGii. Culms rather stout ami strict, 12-20' high, and with 
the sheaths glabrous; leaves 2-10' long, 2" wide or more, subscalM-oiis ; 
ligules short or nearly obsolete; panicle nearly glabrous, 2-1' long, (;rcc1 iiikI 
strict, more or less interrupted, the l)ranches often solitary, short, beai iiig 
1-3 spikelets ; glumes 2-4" long, membranous, acute, smooth, 3-5-flowere(l ; 
lower palet puberulcnt, not villous nor webl)y, 3" long, acute, the upper one 
roughly short-ciliate on tlie keels; scales large and distinct, nearly equah"jig 
the ovary, ciliate ; the strongly plumose stigmas mostly long and conspicuously 
exserted ; ovary 1" long, bearded above. — A very strongly marked species, 
but not wholly agreeing with the characters of the genus. Frequent on the 
East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 7,500-10,000 feet altitude ; July-Sep- 
tember. (1,317.) 
PoA TENUiFOLiA, Niitt., Ms. in Herb. Tufted, 1-2^ high ; culms slender, 
erect ; glabrous, or with the slieaths and leaves more or less scabrous ; leaves 
narrowly hnear, 1-6' long; ligules short; ])aiiic]e erect, narrow and latlier 
close, 2-6' long, the branchlets 2-5 together and sc:d)n)iis ; gliiiiics 2-2\" 
long, acute or acutish, a little scal)roiis on tlie midvein, 3-4-flowcred ; lower 
palet 2" long, obtuse, nearly gla])r()us, puberulcnt or soinewliat ])ubesccnt at 
base, but little compressed; flowers readily sej)arat in i: at the joints. — Like 
the following an ambiguous species, intermediate betw(M'n Glijccria and Poa^ 
but aj)])arcntly more nearly allied to the latter genus, in which tiny are Ju-re 
provisionally retained uiuler old Nuttallian names. It is the same as 668 
and 675 Hall & Harbour, (distributed as Atropis CaHjornica, Munro,) and is 
apparently common from Colorado to Oregon and Washington Territory. 
It is one of the most abundant as well as the most valuable of the bunch" 
grasses of Nevada. The grain, though small, is extensively gathered by the 
natives for food. Occurring on the foot-hills and mountains, less frequently 
