﻿ner ones i' or more long and the outer very short, pubes- 

 cent with ascending short hairs, the nodes in the lower 

 part of the spike about 9" apart; spikelets about 2" long, 

 lower glumes spreading in flower, equal, the lower 1- 

 nerved and nerve very prominent and green, ovate-lance- 

 olate, simply acute, glabrous and hyaline except the very 

 scabrous nerve, usually; upper glume the same but with 

 two additional nerves extending only to the middle, occa- 

 sionally these are wanting; palet barely shorter than the 

 others, 2-toothed, lanceolate, very faintly 2-nerved, glab- 

 rous, simply acute, like the others very thin and hyaline; 

 floral glume ovate-lanceolate, 4-toothed at apex, faintly 

 4-nerved, scabrous throughout, equaling the palet; awn 

 attached below the middle, straight, shorter than the 

 glume; hairs % the palet, sparse. This is manifestly al- 

 lied to C. sylvatica. 



No. 6075. September 25, 1894, Springdale, Utah, 

 growing in clumps at the base of sandstone cliffs along 

 the Virgen river, 4000 alt. 



Poa festucoides. Tufted like Festnca ovina, peren- 

 nial, erect 2-3 high, slender, minutely upwardly scab- 

 rous throughout except the spikelets; root leaves clus- 

 tered and with enlarged short sheaths, the blade 3-5' long, 

 involute-filiform and tapering to a point, stem leaves sim- 

 ilar but a little longer, sheaths half the internodes which 

 are a foot or less long; ligules usually 2" long and lacer- 

 ate at top; panicle on a peduncle as long as the upper 

 leaf, 4-6' long and rachis as much more; rays single about 

 1 %' apart, filiform, widely spreading, proper ray i' long 

 and half its prolongation as a rachis; raylets single, race- 

 mose, 3-4, 1' or less long, branched above the lower V 3 , 

 bearing 2-3 narrowly elliptical spikelets which are 4-5" 

 long, i-i}4" wide, with about 5 florets, spikelets widely 

 spreading and pendulous, all pediceled; lower glume 1- 



