GRASS FAMILY 11') 



long, 3-nerved ; lemmas 5 to 6 lines long, narrow, sealirons or seabrous- 

 piibeseent over the back, the awn 21/2 to SI/t lines long. 

 Open woods, California to Washington. 



Locs.— Modoc Co., Baler <y- Nuttiiifi; Siskiyou Co.. Butler 4ri9 ; Ml. Shasta, Hitehcocl- 29-J2; 

 Mt. Sanhedrin, Heller 5987; Truekee River, Sonne 21; Tahoe, Hitchcock 3091; Pioneer, Hansen 

 183."); Yosemite Nat. Park, Hall # Bahcoclc 3401; Pine Riilge, Ball 4- Chandler 316; Northfork, 

 Griffiths 61)74; S. Fork Kaweah Eiver, Culbertt^on 4.512; Santa Catalina Island, Brandeqee 62. 



Var. hallii Hitehc. n. var. Blades soft-pubescent on lioth surfaces; glumes 

 and lemmas pubescent. — (Laminae foliorum utrinque molliter pubescentes; 

 glumae lemmataque pubeseentia.) — Dry. mostly wooded ridges and slopes, 5000 

 to 9000 feet, California. Type fin the National Herbarium) collected by H. M. 

 Hall in the San Jacinto Mts., 5700 feet altitude, June 27, 1901 (no. 2:301). 



Locs. — Blue Canon, Placer Co., Kellogg 58 in part; Kaweah River, Coville if Funxton 1346; 

 Santa Lucia Mts., Dai'?/ 7709; Tassajara Hot Springs. Elmer 3314; San Bernardino Mts., 

 Wilder 1071, 1131; San Jacinto Mts., Hall 2301, Reed 2449; "S. Calif.", Palmer 233 in 1888. 



Refs. — Bromus orcuttianus Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 10: 223. 1885, type from San Diego, Orcutt 

 in 1884; Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 55. 1904. B. hrachyphyllus Merr. Ehodora 4: 146. 1902. 



14 B. grandis Hitehc. n. comb. Culms 3 to 5 feet high: sheaths pubescent; 

 blades puliescent, elongated, spreading, rather lax; panicle liroad, open, the 

 l>ranches slender and drooping, naked below, the lower usually in pairs, as 

 much as 6 inches long; first glume usually distinctly 3-nerved; lemmas densely 

 pubescent over the back. 



Drj' hillsides at moderate altitudes. San Diego Co. to Madera and ^Monterey 

 COS., also in Oregon and "Wa.sliington. — Eesembles B. orcuttianus var. hallii, 

 from which it differs in the open drooping panicle and the more distinctly 

 3-nerved first glume. 



Locs. — Gavilau Peak, Brewer 740; Xorthfork, Griffiths 6596; S. Fork Kaweah River. Cul- 

 bertson 4512; Little Sur, Davji 7385; Pico Blanco, Davy 7339; Santa Lucia Mts., Davy 7691; 

 Tassajara Hot Springs, Elmer 3398; Topatopa Mts., Abrams 4' McGregor 161; Mt. Wilson, 

 Abrams 2600; Little Santa Anita Canon, Abrams 2632; San Bernardino. Parish 5038; Colorado 

 Desert, Palmer in 1889; La Marte, Orentt 472. 



Refs. — Bkomus or.\ndis Hitcbc. B. orcvttianus Va.sey var. grandis Shear, U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Div. Agrost. Bull. 23: 43. 1900. B. porteri Nash var. assimilans Davy, Univ. Cal. Publ. Rot. 

 1 : .55. 1902, type Hall 2228 from San Jacinto Mts. 



15. B. vulgaris Shear. Culms 3 to 4 feet high, the nodes pubescent; sheaths 

 pilose; blades scattered, more or less pilose; panicle open. 4 to 6 inches long, 

 the branches .slender and drooping; spikelets slender, about an inch long; 

 glumes narrow, sparsely pubescent, the first 1-nerved, 2% to 4 lines long, acute, 

 the second 3-nerved. broader and longer than the first, obtuse or acntish ; 

 lenunas 4 to 5 lines long, sparsely pubescent over back, pubescent or ciliate 

 near the margins or nearly glalirous; awn 3 to 4 lines long. 



Roeky woods and shady ravines, to 7000 feet, California to Vancouver and 

 Montana. 



TjOCS.— Humboldt Ray, Chandler 1177: Hubliard Sta., Davy if Bhisdale 5406; Sherwood, 

 Hitchcock 2700, 2708; Pt. Reyes, Vary 6So3; Mill Valley, Davy 4126; Calaveras Co., Hille- 

 brand 2258; Berkeley Hills, C7io.se 5668; Congress Springs, Hitchcock 2660; Santa Cruz, Jones; 

 Santa Cruz Island, Brandegee 70; San Bernardino Mts., Abrams 2851. 



Var. eximius Shear. Sheaths glabrous. — .Moist mountain sides, British Colum- 

 bia to California. Sherwood Valley, Davy cD Blasdale 5226; Mendocino plains. 

 Bolander 4753. 



Refs.— Bromus vulgaris Shear, V. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 23: 43. 1900. J!, 

 purgans L. var. vulgaris Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 252. 1840. B. ciliatus [L. misapplied by] 

 Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 320. 1880. Var. kximius Shear, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 

 Bull. 23: 44. 1900. 



