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Flowering glumes ciliate on the margin and hirsute, especially 

 below, with scattered hairs, long attenuated into a narrow 

 subulate point, but not awned. M. subulata. 13. 



Culms not bulbous at the base, panicle contracted. 



Flowering glume about 4 lin. long, ciliate on the margin below 

 with long shining hairs, apex truncate or obtusely lobed, 

 awn when present not exceeding 3 lin. in length. 



M. Harfordii. 14. 

 Flowering glume 5-6 lin. long, strongly scabrous, with a few 

 stiff marginal hairs near the base, awn 4-7 lin. long. 



M. aristata. 15. 



1. Melica imperfecta, Trin. in Mem. Acad. St. Petersb., 1840, 59, and Icon. Gram., 

 t. 356; Bolander, Proc. Calif. Acad., 1870, iv, 101 ; Thurber in S. Wats. Bot. 

 Calif., ii, 303. M. colpodioidcs, Nee6. in Tayl. Mag. Nat. Hist, 1, 282; M. 

 panicoides and M. poxoidcs, Nutt. in PI. Gambl., 188. 



Hab. — California : Hills, San Bernardino Valley, Parish Bros., No. 885, 

 April, 1881 ; San. Bernardino Co., Parry and Lemmon, No. 40;?, 18T6 ; G. R. 

 Vasey, No. 664, 1880 ; Southern California, Parry and Lemmon, No. 404 ; 

 Santa Maria, Sta. Barbara Co., Lorenzo Jared, 1881 ; Santa Barbara, Mrs. 

 E. Cooper, 1879 ; "Abundant in dry rock places," Mrs. R. F. Bingham, 1882; 

 Fall Brook, M. E. Jones, No. 3092, March, 1882 (spikelets 2£ lin. long); 

 Guadaloupe Island, off Lower Calif., E. Palmer, No. 98, 1875; LosAngelos, 

 Bolander, Kellogg & Co. (a form with unusually broad and obtuse outer 

 glumes). Two-flowered forms, the M. poceoides of Nuttall, come from San 

 Francisco, Bolander, No. 6076, in part ; Hills, San Diego, C. G. Pringle, 

 1882 ; Miss Scott, 1880 ; Dr. Cleveland, 1882. 



Var. refracta, Thurber in S. Wats. Bot. Calif., ii, 303. 

 Hab. — Near San Bernardino, Calif. J. G. Lemmon, No. 1471, 1879. 



Var. flexuosa, Bolander, Proc. Calif. Acad., iv, 101; Thurber, 1. c, 303. 



On the road from Mariposa to Clarks, Bolander ; Santa Inez Mission, 

 Brewer, No. 569 (teste Thurber). 



I do not recognize this variety among the specimens I have in 

 hand. 



Var. minor. 



Characterized by its comparatively low and densely tufted 

 habit, short and chiefly radical leaves, compressed or angular 

 culms, slender few-flowered panicle, the short branches divergent 

 or even reflexed ; the spikelets are generally smaller than in the 

 species and the outer glumes usually shorter and more obtuse. 



Hab. — San Bernardino Mts., Parish Bro., No. 856, May, 1882. 



