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more nearly equal. Dry hillsides and valleys from the Trinity Mountains to 
the Havallah Range, Nevada, and near Salt Lake City, Utah ; 4,300-5,000 
feet altitude ; May, June. (1,323.) 
Festuca ovina, L. With the awn half the length of the flower. In- 
digenous from Northern New England and Wisconsin to the Saskatclicwan 
and Rocky Mountains, Bear Lake and Bchring Strait ; Greenland ; Colorado. 
East Humboldt Mountains; 7-8,000 feet altitude ; July, August. (1,324.) 
Var. BEEVIFOLIA. (F.hrevifolif/,V)V.Steud.Gram.Sl3.) Tutted; cnlins 
low and slender, 4-8' high ; leaves setaceous and sheaths glabrous, tlu! upix'i-- 
most leaves often very shoii and the sh(nith ratheu loose ; ]);)niele racfMnose 
and nearly simple, erect, 1-2' long ; spikelets 1-4-flowered ; llowcrs Icrcif, 
somewhat scabrous, about 2" long, twice the length of the awn. — Iveli i ivd 
to F. ovina, by Munro. Arctic Coasl nnd Rocky Mountains. 373 Parry, 
666 Hall & Harbour, and 620 Vasey are \r.v\ iK^arly the same. — On the 
highest peak of the Clover Mountains, Nevada; 11,000 feet all it U(h' ; Sep- 
tember. (1,325.) 
Festuca 1 Culms tufted from a biennial or perennial llbrons 
root, 10' high; nearly glabrous; sheaths exceeding the interinxh^s ; h-aves 
revolute, Unear-setaceous, 1-3' long; panicle open, the branches 3-5 together, 
naked at base, puberulent, bearing 1-3 purplish, 3-4-f1()wered si)iivelets ; 
glumes acute, the upper IJ" long, nearly twice exceeding the lower, ol)- 
scurely 5-nerved; flowers 1^" long, cylindrical; palets nearly equal, acutish, 
the lower 5-nerved, the upper slightly bifid. — Collected by Stretch (144) in 
Western Nevada ; in Herb. Torrey. 
Beomus breviaristatus, Thurb. (?) (CertatocMoa, Hook. /7. Jhr. 
Amer. 2. 253, t. 234.) " Panicle elongateil, loose, somewhat noddinir or creel ; 
spikelets lanceolate, conipresse'd and sharj)ly 2-edged, niinulely .-eabrons: 
glumes moderately unequal, acute biil not awned, nerved: lower palel aeulely 
keeled, many-nerved, short-awned ; leaves broadly linear, a liitle hairy, the 
sheaths villose-tomentose ; culms 2-o" high." — iJiilering from 1 )oni:las' plant 
chiefly in the character and amount of pid)escence, the sheallis \M-'\\\<y sini)>ly 
hairy but not tomentose, (or very rreipn-nlly wholly naked,) and rlie >|)ikelet> 
silky-pubescent, but less so than in B. K<i/mU. l^micle 3-8' long, slightly 
compound; spikelets about 1' in length, 6-S-tl(,wered ; glumes 4-5" km-, 
the lower about .".-nerved, the upper 7-nerved, (about 5 and 0-nerved aeeoid- 
ing to Hooker;) lower palet 5-8" long, with an awn of 1-2"; leaves mostly 
