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12. Melica bromoides, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., viii, 409; Thurber in S. Wat. Bot. 



Cal., ii, 304. M. Geyeri, Munro, ex Bolander, Proc. Cal. Acad., iv, 130. M. 

 poseoidcs and M. p. var. bromoides, Nos. 6120, 40 and 6119 of Bolander's dis- 

 tributed sets. Qlyceria bullosa, Buckley, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1862, 95! 

 Hab. — California: Redwoods, Coast Range, Mt. Dana, Bolander, No. 



6119 ; San Francisco, No. 6120 ; Woods, Ukiah, Mendocino Co., Bolander, 



No. 40. Oregon : Near Waldo, Thos. Howell. 



Note. — Mr. Howell sends from Oregon (No. 335, 1884) a form 

 that diners from the type in its more open and fewer-flowered 

 panicle ; the flowering glumes are also considerably longer, and 

 entire, or but slightly notched at the tip, without any awn. 

 This form has a decided festucoid " look," and may be designated 

 as var. Howellii. 



13. Melica subulata. Bromus subulatus, Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Boss., iv, 358; Gray, 



Proc. Am. Acad., viii, 410. M. acuminata, Bol., Proc. Cal. Acad., iv, 104; 

 Thurber in S. Wats. Bot. Cal., ii, 305. M. poxoides, var. acuminata, of 

 Bolander's distribution, No. 4698. 



Hab. — California: Mendocino Co., Bolander, 1866. Oregon: E. Hall, 

 No. 645, 1871; "Low mountains," Union Co., W. C. Cusick, No. 876, 

 1880; "Along mountain streams," Howell, 1880, distributed sub nom. 

 "M. Geyeri" ; Kellogg and Harford, No. 1112, 1868-9; Suavie's Island, 

 Howell, 1883. Washington Terr. : Woods, Columbia River, W. N. Suks- 

 dorf, 1882 ; G. R. Vasey, No. 129, 1883. 



Festuca subulata, Brong.,is cited as a S3'non3 T m for this species 

 by Dr. Gray and Prof. Thurber. The description, in Led. Fl. Ross., 

 of F. subulata, Brong., and the synonyms there quoted point to a 

 very different grass. I would rather concur with the opinion 

 expressed by Prof. E. Hackel, that F. pauciflora, Thurber, in S. 

 Wats. Bot. Cal., ii, 318 (No. 6073, Bolander), is the F. subulata, 

 of Brongard, and not Thunberg's F. pauciflora. 



14. Meliea Harfordii, Boland. in Proc. Calif. Acad., iv, 102; Thurber in S.Wats, 



Bot. Calif., ii, 305. 



Hab. — California : Canons, Santa Cruz Coast, Bolander, and Redwood 

 on the Upper Mattole River, No. 6424 : Sierra, alt. 4000 ft., Bolander, Kel- 

 logg & Co., 1872 ; G. R. Vasey, 1875 (these specimens show well the tufted 

 habit of the species) ; J. G. Lemmon. Oregon : Waldo, Howell, June, 

 1884 ; L. F. Henderson, 1883. Washington Territory : Willamette Slough, 

 Howell, May, 1882 ; Dry rocky hillsides, Columbia River, Klickitat Co., W. 

 N. Suksdorf, 1882. 



" This grass I collected in June, 1864, in a gulch near the 

 summit of Santa Cruz Mts. It grows in large tufts 3-6 ft. high, 

 the spikelets breaking asunder, even in what appear to be }-oung 

 specimens, at the slightest touch. Panicle contracted, erect, 



