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slightly drooping at the apex, caused by the club-shaped heavy 

 top, often 9 in. long, with a few or even a single branch far below 

 the main panicle. This spring I noticed the same grass near 

 Ukiah." — Bolander in Herb. A. Gray. 



In Bolander's specimens the spikelets are about 5 lin long, and 

 less than a line in width ; the second empty glume is scarcely 3 

 lin. long, and the slender awn of the flowering glume is about a 

 line in length. In the Oregon specimens the spikelets are 8 lin. 

 long and nearly 2 lin. in width, with the second glume nearly 5 

 lin. long. 



15. Melica aristata, Thurb. in Bolander's Revision of the Melicfc, Proc. Calif. Acad., 

 iv, 103, and in S. Wats. Bot. Calif., ii, p. 305. 



Hab. — California: Yosemite Valley, Bolander, No. 4861, 1866 (sheaths 

 and leaves densely pilose); Bolander, Kellogg & Co., 1872 (culms stout, 3 

 ft. high, panicle a foot long, purplish) ; Emigrant Gap, M. E. Jones, 1882 ; 

 Mt. Shaster, alt. 6000 ft.; C. G. Pringle, August, 1881 (culms slender, smooth, 

 sheaths and leaves scabious, panicle simple, few-flowered, dark purple). 

 Washington Territory: W. N. Suksdorf, 1883 (panicle few-flowered, 

 green. ) 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE I. 



Spikelet of Melica imperfecta. 



Same with the outer glumes removed, showing the nearly sessile 



rudimentary floret, r. 

 Spikelet of M. Torreyana. 

 Same with outer glumes removed. 

 Spikelet of M. fugax. 

 Spikelet of M. California. 

 Spikelet of M. bulbosa, from the typical plant. 

 Anterior view of floret of same, showing palea. 

 Terminal empty glume and rudiment of same. 

 Spikelet of M. bulbosa, the florets raised above the empty glumes ; 



unusually large, from the Idaho specimens. 

 Spikelet of Melica spectabile. 

 Terminal empty glume and rudiment of same. 

 Anterior view of flowering glume of same, flattened to show 



veins, etc. 

 Seed of M. bulbosa from Howell's specimens. 

 Spikelet of Melica frutescens. 

 Floret of same. 

 Spikelet of Melica Porteri. 



Dorsal view of flowering glume, flattened out above. 

 Spikelet of Melica subulata. 

 A floret from the spikelet of Melica bromoides. 



All enlarged on the same scale, excepting fig. 14. 



