168 GRAMINEAE 



flowered; glumes aud lemmas broad, rather soft; awu of the lemma about 

 1/2 line long. 



Mt. Dana, above timber-line (the only known locality in California), Bolan- 

 dcr (no. 6100) and Brcivcr (no. 5066 in part). Arctic America, soutli in the 

 Rocky Mts. to Arizona and Blue Mts. of Oregon. 



Kefs. — Festuca brachyphylla Scliult. Mant. 3: 646. 1827. F. brevifolia E. Br. App. 

 Parry's Voy. Suppl. 289. 1824, not Muhl. 1817. F. ovina L. var. brevifolia Wats. U. S. Expl. 

 40th Par. 5: 389. 1871; Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: .317. 1880. Rydberg refers tbe above 

 specimens to F, minutiflora Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 32: G08. 190.5 (type from Colorado). 



17. F. supina Sehur. Culms erect, densely tnfted, 3 to 6 inches high; blades 

 numerous, usuall.v less than '^ tlio lengtli of the <ndm. involute, smooth, firm 

 and hard, scarcely angled in drying; intloresceuce about as in F. brachyphylla, 

 the lemmas firmer, narrower, involute and more scabrous, the tiorets looser and 

 more numerous and the awn longer. 



In the high Sierra Nevada from Jlono L.ikc sontli. .nid in the San Bernar- 

 dino Mts., mostly above 11.000 feet altitude; extends from Greenland to the 

 White Mts. of New Hampshire and from British ColninbiM and Alberta south 

 in the mountains to Arizona and California. 



Loes. — White Mts., ShocUey 616; Mt. Dana. Hall .>■ Babcucl. ^!l)^l^; Mt. Lyell, Hitchcock 

 3293; Kings River, Lemmon in 1902; Denels Peak, Hall 4" Bubcat-k- 'rri\4: Sawtooth Peak, 

 Hall #■ Babcock 5676; Farevpell Gap, Purpiix 5117; Mt. Whitney, Hitchcock 3444; Graybaek 

 Mt., Eeed 2740; San Gorgonio Mt., Hall 7639. 



Kefs. — Festuca supina Sehur. Enum. PI. Transs. 784. 1866. F. oviiia L. var. supina Hack. 

 Bot. Centr. 8: 405. 1881. 



18. F. viridula Vasey. Culms rather loosely tufted, erect, smooth, 2 to 3 

 feet high; sheaths smooth; blades erect, 1 line wide or less, soft, scaberulous 

 above, often more or less involute; panicle loose and open, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 the branches ascending; spikelets 3 to 6-flowered; glumes membranaceous, 

 smooth, about 11/2 lines long; lemmas firm, membranaceous, keeled toward the 

 apex, acute or somewhat mucronate, 3 to 3i/'2 lines long. 



Subalpine meadows, Washington and Idaho to the high mountains of central 



California. 



Locs. — Geysers, Sonoma Co., Bolandcr 3945; Webber Lake, Leibert) 5262; Donner Lake, 

 Davy 3222; Sierra Valley, Brewer 1976; Mt. Tallae, Hitchcock 3155. 



Refs.— Festuca vieidula Vasey, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. 13=: pi. 93. 1893, type 

 collected in California by Bolander. F. gracillima [Hook, misapplied by] Thurb. in Wats. 

 Bot. Cal. 2: 318. 1880. 



19. F. californica Vase.y. Culms tufted, stout, coarse, usually 3 to 5 feet 

 high, scabrous, sheaths somewhat scabrous, the lower persistent, the collar and 

 auricles pilose ; blades flat or becoming involute when dry, hard and firm, sca- 

 brous, the lower much elongated; panicle large, usually loose and open, the 

 branches few, long and slender, naked below, bearing a few large spikelets 

 toward the ends; spikelets compressed, about 5-flowered ; glumes oblong- 

 lanceolate, firm, smooth, except the scabrous keel, 3 to 4 lines long; lemmas 

 4 to 5 lines long, lanceolate, convex, firm, scabrous, acuminate or short-awned. 



Meadows, shady banks and borders of woods, in the Coast Ranges from Mon- 

 terey Co. {Davy 7344) to Humboldt Co. (Davy 6599) and ]\It. Shasta (Heller 

 7944) ; north to Oregon. 



Refs. — Festuca californica Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 1 : 277. 1893, t.ype from San Fran- 

 cisco, Bolander 1505; Davy in Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 69. 1901. F. scabrclla [Torr. misap- 

 plied by] Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 318. 1880. F. kalmii Gray var. oristnlata Torr. U. S. 

 Rep. Expl. Mi.ss. Paeif. 4: 157. 1856, type from Mark West Creek, Bigclow in 1854. F. arisiu- 

 lata Shear; Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb. 10: 32. 1906. Bromus depauperatus [Presl, misapplied 

 by] Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 320. 1880. The specimen in the Gray Herbarium (Bolander 



