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culms very slender, 3-3° high, geniculate at base ; sheaths smooth, exceed- 
ing the internodes ; ligules elongated ; leaves short (^-4') and very narrow 
or convolute-setaceous ; panicle diffuse, the capillary branchlets 2-4 together 
and naked below ; glumes 2-flowered, with the plumose rudiment of a third, 
2-3" long, exceeding the flowers; lower palet truncate and denticulate, 
long, awned below the middle, the awn 2-4" long, geniculate; 
grain free, flattish, not grooved. — California ; Washington Territory ; West- 
em Texas. Meadows near Salt Lake City, Utah; 4,500 feet altitude ; May, 
June. (1,345.) 
HiEROCHLOA BOREALis, E. & S. From the northern Border States to 
the Saskatchewan, the Rocky Mountains, and Behring Strait ; Labra(k)r ; 
Colorado and California. Bear Eiver Canon of the Uintas ; 8,500 feet alti- 
tude ; August. Refused even by hungry mules. (1,346.) 
Phalaris arundinacea, L. From the Northern States to ITudsoirs 
Bay and Bear Lake and west to Oregon. The P. arundinacea of Parke's 
Report, collected on the Gila by Dr. Antisell, is rather the southern P. 
intermedia^ Bosc, which extends westward from Texas and the Indian Ter- 
ritory to California. On stream-banks in the East Humboldt Mountains, 
Nevada, in Salt Lake Valley, and on the Provo River in the Wahsatch ; 
4,300-6,000 feet altitude; June-August. Known as Crazy Grass " from 
its reputed injurious effect upon horses. (1,347.) 
Beckmannia^ eruc^formis, Host. Steud. Gram. 15. Culms stout, 
1-3J° high, erect from an ascending base, with the sheaths glabrous ; lig- 
ules elongated ; leaves linear, 4-8' long and 2-G" wide, flat, acute, scabrous ; 
panicle 4-12' long, erect, strict, secund, the short crowded branchlets densely 
flowered from the base, glabrous ; spikelets sessile, iml)ricately arranged in 
two rows, nearly orbicular, IJ" in diameter, the upper rudimentary floret 
minute, stipitate. — From the Saskatchewan to Bear Lake, south to the Li- 
dian Territory and west to Northern California and Oregon. West Hum- 
boldt Mountains and Ruby and Thousand Spring Valleys, Nevada, and in 
Salt Lake Valley, the Wahsatch and Uintas; 4,300-7,500 feet altitude; 
June-Sej^tember. (1,348.) 
1 BECKMANNIA, Host. Panicle racemose, contracted. Spikelets coiii])ics.st!d, 2-flowered, the 
iijiper floret an abortive rudiment. Glumes 2, obovatc, coniprosficd-boatsliiiiied, siihcoriaceon.'^. erjual, a 
little shorter than the flower, pointless. Palets membranous, tlio lower ovate, comavc. acufi^h. iiincro- 
nate, 3-nerved, the upper 2-nerved, bifid. Stamens 3. Styles 2, with eluiigated i)Um)orie atiymaa. 
Scales 2, bifid, glabrons. Grain iree, glabrous. — A coarse perennial aquatic 
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