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5. S. glabrum J. G. Smith, ('iilms (J to 15 inches high; slieaths smooth or 

 somewhat seabrous; blades soon iiivolnte, glabrous or scabrous below, puberu- 

 lent above; spike 1 to 2 inches long, dense; glumes, or some of them, bifid to 

 near the base; lemmas smooth, the awns slender. 1 to 2 inches long. 



Dry, niostl.y alkaline soil, Mt. Pinos north to Washington, east to Wyoming. 



Locs. — Greuaila, HclUr 8071; Southern Belle Mine, Mono Co., HclUr 8329; Hunter's Raneli 

 Mts., Inyo Co., Hall cf Chandler 7146; Argus Mts., Purpiis 5381; San Francisco, Breicer 15.53; 

 Antelope Valley, Davy 2313; Cuyama White Hills, East wood; Mt. Pinos, HaU 6636. 



Ref.— SiTANiON GL.4BRUM J. G. Smith, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 18: 14. 1899, 

 type from Coso Mts.. Coville # Funston 914, 



(i. S. californicum J. G. Smith. Culms 1 to 2 feet liigh ; sheaths glabrous or 

 scabrous, sometimes puberulent ; lilades fiat or becoming involute, glabrous 

 l)eneatli. scabrous above, sometimes pul)erulent; spike 2 to 3 inches long, rather 

 loose and open; glumes entire, long-awned; lemmas smooth. 4 to 5 lines long; 

 awns 11/-! to 21/0 inches long. 



Gravelly or rocky slopes and dry open woods, mostl.v at i-ather high altitiules. 

 from the southern boundary, northward through the San Jacinto and San Her- 

 nardino mountains and the Sierra Nevada to Washington; also in the region 

 of Mt. Shasta. 



Refs. — SiTANloN CALIFORNICUM J. G. Smith, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. IS: 13. 

 1899, type from San Bernardino Mts., Fnrish 3293; Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 64. 1904. 



71. HYSTRIX :\Ioench. 



S|)ikelets 2 to 4-tiowered. nearly sessile, 1 to 'A together at each .joint of the 

 coiitiinious rachis. and facing it as in Elymus, widely divergent at maturity, 

 (ilumes reduced to short or miinite awns, the first usuall.v obsolete, both often 

 wanting in the upper spikelets. Lemmas convex, rigid, tapering into long 

 awns Perennials, with fiat blades and loosely-flowered bristly spikes. — Spe- 

 cies 4, temperate regions. 2 in North America, 1 in Siberia. 1 in New Zealand, 

 (Greek hustrix. a porcupine,) 



1. H californica Kuntze. Culms stout, oi/-; to 6 feet high; sheaths hispid 

 or the n])per smooth; blades Hat, as nuich as % inch wide, scabrous; spike 

 stout, dense and somewhat nodding above, more or less interrupted below. 5 

 to 10 inches long; spikelets mostly in pairs. 1 to 3-flowered, on short callus-like 

 pedicels; glumes wanting; lemmas 6 to 7 lines long. 5-nerved above, the 

 nerves, especiall.v the marginal, ciliate-hispid with short stiff hairs; awn stout. 

 straight, rough, about 10 lines long. 



Woods and shaded banks, near the coast, Marin to Santa Cruz cos. 



Locs. — Olema, Davy 4306, 4318; near San Francisco, KcJlngij 4'- Harford 1107; San 

 Gregorio redwoods, Kellogg 4- Bran n an ; Crystal Lake Springs, Elmer 4700; Santa Cruz. .(«- 

 derson. 



Refs. — HvsTElx CALIFORNICA Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI, 778, 1891. Gynmostirltain ridifoniieum 

 Boland. ; Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 327. 1880, type from San Francisco, Bolandir. As- 

 perella californica Beal, Cirasses N. Am. 2: 657. 189(); Daw in .Tepson, Fl. W, Mid, Cal, 81. 

 1901. 



CYPERACEAE, Sedge Fa.milv. 



Grass-like (ir I'usli-likc herbs \\'\\\\ fihnius roots, maii.v species pereniii.-d by 



long rootstocks. Stems solid (rarely hollow), usuall.v triangular or terete, coin- 



nioidj- scajie-like with mostly liasal leaves. Ijea\-es alternate, narrow, witii 



closed sheaths, often 3-rnnkeil. Flowers one in the axil of each bract (scale), 



Jepson. Fl. C,il. vol. 1 (GraminoaL- by Hitchcock, pp. 161-189. .\pr. .iO, 1912), 



