GRASS FAMILY 161 



In shallow water, central and northern California; eastward to Colorado, 

 New Brunswick and Connecticut. 



Locs.— Mt. Shasta, Palmer 2614 in 1892; Wnrnor Mts., Griffiths ^ Hunter 452; Tahoe, 

 Hitchcork 3102; Placer Co., Carin utir ; Pctahinia. Kliiirr 4()o2 ; Yosomite Valley, Hitchcoclc 

 3237. 



Refs. — Glyceria borealis Batcheltlcr. Proc. Manchester Inst. Aits & Sci. 1: 74. ^1900. 

 Fanicularia horealis Nash, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 34S. 1897. Glyceria fluitans [R. Br. misap- 

 plied by] Thuvb. in Wats. Bot. C'al. 2: 307. 18S0; the preceding and following species are also 

 probably included. 



:?. G. leptostachya Buckl. Cnlms about 4 feet high; sheaths smooth ; blades 

 minutely and sparsely scabrous above, about 2 lines wide; panicle long and 

 narrow ; spikelets % to % inch long, about 1 line wide ; lemma oblong, trun- 

 cate, more or less purple-tinged, about IV2 lines long, prominently 7-nerved, 

 distinctly scabrous on and between the nerves. 



In shallow water, Sonoma Co. (Guerneville, Davy 6005; Sonoma, lleller 

 5606). Also in Oregon. 



Refs. — Glyceria leptostachya Buckl. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1862: 9.5. 1862. Fanicularia 

 davyi Merr. Rhoilora 4: 145. 1902, type Davy 6005. 



4. G. pauciflora Presl. Culms 1 to 4 feet high, from a decumbent rooting 

 base, with creeping rhizomes; sheaths smooth or scabrous; blades scattered, 

 3 to 6 lines wide, scabrous; panicle pyramidal, nodding, 4 to 8 inches long, 

 open, the branches spreading, naked below, rather densely flowered toward the 

 ends ; spikelets about 2 lines long, o]>long, about 5-flowered ; glumes short, 

 broad, obtuse, i/o and 3/4 line long; lemmas 1 line long, oblong, rounded and 

 somewhat erose at summit, prominently 5-nerved, very scabrous on the nerves 

 and somewhat so between. 



Swamps, shallow water and wet meadows; Kern Cafion {Hitchcock 3421) 

 northward in the Sierra Nevada, and San Francisco {Davy 728) northward along 

 the coast to British Columbia ; east to Jloiitaua and Colorado. 



Refs. — Glyceria pauciflora Presl, Rel. Haenlj. 1: 257. 1830; Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 

 2: 308. 1880. Fanicularia paucifiora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 783. 1891; Davy in Jeiison, Fl. 

 W. Mid. Cal. 68. 1901. P. mvltifolia Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 36: 54. 1903. 



5. G. erecta Hitchc. n. sp. Culms slender, 1 to 2 feet high, erect from a de- 

 cumbent rooting base, with creeping rhizomes; sheaths smooth, numerous and 

 overlapping at base, the ligule broad and scarious, IVL' to 2 lines long; blades 

 mostly l>asal. short and erect, flat. 2 to 3 lines wide, scabrous on both surfaces 

 or nearly smooth ; panicle long.exserted, narrow, 2 to 3 inches long, the short 

 branches ascending; spikelets oblong, 21/2 to 3 lines long, pale or purple- 

 tinged, 4 to 6-flowered; glumes broad, obtuse,' 1 -nerved, the first about y^, the 

 second about 1 line long; lemmas about V/^ lines long, smooth, distinctly but 

 not prominently 5-nerved, the apex scarious, erose-toothed ; palea about as 

 long as lemma. — (Culmi tenues recti, ad basin deeumbentes, e rhizomatibus 

 repentibus; vaginae numerosae deorsum imbricatae ; ligula 11/2-2 lin. longa; 

 laminae breves, rectae, plauae, 2-3 lin. latae, scabrae; panicula angusta. 2-3 

 pol. longa, ramis l)revibus, ascendentibus ; spiculae oblongae, 2yo-3 lin. longae, 

 4-6-florae; glumae latae, obtusae, 1-nerviae, prima Vo Hn- altera 1 lin. longa; 

 lemmata circa 1% lin. longa, levigata, 5-nervia apice scariosa erosaque: palea 

 ■lemmate subaeqnilonga.) 



Springy places in mountain meadows. Sierra Nevada to southern Oregon. 



Type: Hiichcnck 32501/2 in the National Hrrbarinm, Sunrise Creek. Yosemite National Park, 

 August 19, 1908. In California this species has been collected at: Summit Valley, Fringle 

 in 1882; Mt. T.-iIl;ic, HHclicuck 3157; Yosemite Nat. Park, TlHrhcock 3223, 3250ii ; Northfork, 



