148 GRAMINEAE 



Refs. — Melica torreyana Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1885: 43. 188-5, type appears to be 

 Torrey 586 from New Almaden, Bolander 6076 also mentioned; Davy in Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 62. 1901. 



13. M. imperfecta Trin. Ciilnis erect, 1 to 3 feet high ; blades narrow, usu- 

 ally not over 1 line wide ; panicle narrow, from a few inches to a foot in length, 

 the branches more or less fascicled, long and short together; spikelets 2 to 3 

 lines long, purple-tinged, usually with 1 perfect floret and a rudiment ; glumes 

 indistinctly nerved; lemma a little longer than the gluuies, smooth, indistinctly 

 nerved, obtuse ; rudiment oblong, short-pediceled, appressed to the palea. 



Dry open woods and rocky hillsides. Coast Ranges from the Bay region south 

 into Lower California. Two specimens eome from further inland, mouth of 

 Kern Canon, Hdkr 7652, and Dunlap to Millwood. Griffitlis 4665. The follow- 

 ing specimens have larger spikelets: Ahrams 1220, Jones 3092 (one specimen), 

 Parish Bros. 885, Wilder 1079. Reed's no. 938 from Bos Spring Mt., provision- 

 ally referred to this species, differs in having a narrow shining interrupted spike- 

 like panicle, the branchlets and pedicels villous; the spikelets having 1 perfect 

 floret. 



Var. refracta Thurli. Differs in having pubescefit blades and spreading or 

 reflexed lower branches of the panicle. — Gravelly brushy slopes, southern Cali- 

 fornia and Lower California. 



Logs. — Mt. Pinos, Eall 6736; Tehachapi, Chase 5738; Mt. Wilson, Chase 5573; Los An- 

 geles, Elmer 3646; San Gabriel Forest Res., Leiberg 3362; Erskine Creek, Purpus 5078. 5078a; 

 Santa Cruz Island, Brandegee 64 in 188S. 



Var. flexuosa Bolaiid. Blades glal)rous; lower panicle branches spreading 

 or reflexed. — Wooded hillsides and rocky banks, central and southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Locs. — Maripo-sa Creek, Con g don ; Yosemite Valley, Chase 5696; Northfork, Grii]ith« 4586; 

 Pacific Grove, Hitchcock 2620; Laguna, Srhocnfeldt 3607, 3662; Jacumba Hot Springs. 

 Schoenfcldt 3233; various localities from Santa Barbara to San Diego, Abrams 1346, 3343, 

 Baler 4198, Hall 2079, Leiberg 3219. 



Var. minor Scribn. Blades glabrous, very narrow ; plant low, less than 1 

 foot high, a scarcely distinct variety. — Dry hillsides and crevices of rocks, 

 southern California and Lower California. 



Locs. — Loma Prieta, Vavy 426, 568; Nacimiento River, Davy 7645; Sequoia Nat. Park, 

 Davidson 2105; Ft. Tejon, Parish 1997; Mt. Wilson, Grant 6244; Colorado Desert, Mearns 

 2976; between Campo and Jacumba, Abrams 3630; Santa Catalina Island, Trask. 



Refs.— Melica imperfecta Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. Sci. Nat. 2': 59. 1836, type 

 locality California, no specimen mentioned; the type in the Trinius Herbarium is labeled, 

 "Nova California, Douglas, 1833"; Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 303. 1880; Davy in Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 61. 1901 ; Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 46. 1904. M. panieoidcs Nutt. .Jour. Acad. 

 Phila. II. 1: 188. 1848, type from Santa Barbara, Gambel. Var. refracta Thurb. in Wats. 

 Bot. Cal. 2: 303. 1880, type from San Bernardino, Lemmon; Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 47. 1904. 

 Var. pubens Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Circ. 30: 8. 1901, type from Santa Cruz 

 Island, Brandegee 64 in 1SS8. Var. flexuosa Boland. Proc. Cal. Acad. 4: 101. 1870, type 

 locality, "Mariposa to Clark's"; Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 303. 1880; Abrams, Fl. Los 

 Ang. 46. 1904. Var. MINOR Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1885: 42. 1885, type from San Ber- 

 nardino Mts., Parish Bros. 856; Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 46. 1904. M. poaeoides Nutt. Jour. 

 Acad. Phila. II. 1: 188. 1848, type said to be from "Island of Santa Catalina", Gambel. 

 Through the kindness of Dr. A. B. Rendle, of the Herbarium of the British Museum, I have 

 been able to examine the type specimen of M. poaeoides Nutt. It is a good match for Brande- 

 gee 's no. 114 from La JoDa, eiillcctcd April 17. 1S94. The label accompanying the type 

 specimen gives as tin- local'ty, "St. Diego.'' .1/. pari.-^liii Vasey; Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 

 500. 1896, type Parish 1997. 



