GRASS FAMILY 165 



Kefs. — Festuca octoflora Walt. Fl. Carol. 81. 1788; Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 52. 1904. 

 F. tenella Willd. Sp. PI. 1: 419. 1797; Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 317. 1880. Var. hirtella 

 Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb. 10: 12. 1906. 



2. F. pacifica Piper. Culms slender, erect, 1 to 2 feet high; blades 

 soft, glabrous, loosely involute; panicle 2 to 5 inches long, the lower branches 

 solitary, divaricate ; spikelets 3 to 6-Uowered; glumes glabrous, the first 

 subulate-lanceolate, 1-nerved, 2 lines long, the second lanceolate-acuminate, 

 3-nerved, 2% lines long; lemmas lanceolate, scabrous, except in the lowermost 

 floret (this smooth), 3 to 3yo lines long, attenuate into a scabrous awn 5 to 7 

 lines long. 



Open ground, mountain slopes and open woods, throughout the state, ex- 

 cept the Great Valley and the Mohave Desert ; extends from British Columbia 

 to Arizona and Lower California. 



Rcl'. — Festuca pacipic.v Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb. 10: 12. 1906. 



o. F. confusa Piper. Differs from F. pacifica in having hirsute glumes; 

 plants small and slender; sheaths and blades pubescent; spikelets 2 or 

 3-flowered. 



Dry hillsides, middle California to Washington. Mt. Diablo, Brewer 1142, 

 i/o//"l737; Northfork, Griffiths -leOSc; Santa Lucia Mts., Eastwood. 



Eef. —Festuca coxfusa Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb. 10: 13. pi. 1. 1906. 



4. F. eriolepis Desv. Culms 4 to 15 inches high ; sheaths glabrous or pu- 

 bescent : blades soft, loosely involute, usually glabrous ; panicle 1 to 3 inches 

 long, the solitary rays at length divaricate; glumes lanceolate, glabrous, the 

 first 3 to 31/2 lines long, the second a little longer; lemmas lanceolate, densely 

 villous, 3 to 3V2 lines long, attenuate into a scabrous awn nearly as long. 



Sandy ground, northern California and Nevada; also Chile. 



Loes.-^Modoc Co.. Griffltlis # Hunter 406; Castella, Piper 6346; Ukiah, Bolander 6118; 

 Truckee, Sonne 7. 



Refs. — Festuca ekiolepis Desv. in Gay, Fl. Chil. 6: 428. 1853. F. arida Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 

 36: 52. 1903. 



5. F. grayi Piper. Habit of F. pacifica, but somewhat stouter; sheaths and 

 sometimes blades pubescent; glumes and lemmas pubescent or puberulent 

 throughout ; spikelets 3 to 5-flowered. 



Open ground and rocky slopes; Yolo Co. {Blankinship 20) and Amador Co. 

 {ITansen 632) to Ventura Co. {Eully 40) and Imperial Co. {ScJwenfeldt 3634 

 in part) ; north to Oregon and east to Arizona. 



Eefs. — Festuca gkayi Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb. 10: 14. 1906. F. microstachys Nutt. var. 

 grayi Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 52. 1904. Var. ciliata Gray; Davy in Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 69. 1901. 



6. F. reflexa liuckl. Culms 8 inches to ly^ feet high ; sheaths smooth or 

 pubescent; blades narrowly linear, flat or loosely involute; panicle 2 to 5 

 inches long, the solitary rays and the spikelets all at length divaricate; spike- 

 lets 1 to 3-llowered, 2y2 to Sy^ lines long; glumes glabrous, the first 1 to 2 lines 

 long, the second 2 to 2y2 lines long; lemmas glabrous or somewhat scabrous, 

 2y2 to 3 lines long, attenuate into a scabrous awn, usually 2y2 to 4 lines long. 



Mesas, rocky slopes and wooded hills; Mendocino Co. {Davy 5049) to San 

 Diego {Orcutt 1013), also in Madera Co. {Griffiths 4423), Kern Co. ( Davy 1898) 

 and Panamint Mts. {Covillc & Funston 775) ; north to Vancouver Island and 



east to Utah. 



Refa. — Festuca keflexa Buckl. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1862: 98. 1863, type collected by 

 Nuttall in "Upper California." F. microstachys Nutt. var. pauciflora Scribn.; Beal, Grasses 

 N. Am. 2: 586. 1896; Davy in Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 69. 1901. 



