468 POACE^. 



mm. long, villous on the lower half of the 3 projecting nerves, 

 including two intermediate teeth; palea oval, revolute at the 

 base, as long as its glume. 



U. S. Depf. Agricul. 542 (no locality) ; Massachusetts, Cooley; 

 Illinois, Cooley; District of Columbia, McGartliy; Florida, Cnrfiss 

 3454:, J. K. SmaU. 



Dry or sandy fields, Massachusetts, New York, to Texas. A 

 grass apparently of poor quality for pasture or meadow. 



9. S. pulchella (H. B. K.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 789 (1891). 

 Triodia pulcMlq II. B. K. Nov. Gen. 1: 155. t. 47 (1815). Kce- 

 leria pulchella Spreng. Syst. 1:322 (1824). Uralepis jnikhella 

 Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1 : 108 (1829). 



A densely tufted yellowish or whitish green grass, 3-4 cm. high. 

 Culm scabrous, very slender, branching or stolouiferous. Leaves 

 of sterile shoots glaucous, recurved, involute, 1-3 cm. long, 0.4-0.5 

 mm. diam. Panicle spicate in umbellate clusters, terminating the 

 leafy branches. Spikelets flattened, ovate-oblong, 6-9-flowered, 

 9-11 mm. long; empty glumes subequal, lanceolate, 1-nerved, 6-7 

 mm. long; floral glume oblong, pubescent with white hairs, 4-5 

 mm. long, apex bifid nearly lialf way to the base, with a straight 

 awn between and exceeding tlie lobes; palea oblong-spatulate, cili- 

 ate on the keels, 4 mm. long. 



Arizona, Eothrock 575, Prinyle in 1882; U. S. Dept. Ayrund. 

 540; New Mexico, IFr?'^/// 2059; California (Los Angeles), P«//;?^r 

 500, 652, 1359. 



Of the last. Dr. Palmer says : ''Rare, in crevices of rocks on a 

 bare promontory, 1785 feet above the sea-level." 



Texas to Arizona and California. 



Yar. parviflora Yasey ined. 



Smaller in every way; leaves 1 cm. or less in length; spikelets 

 3_4-flowered; emj^ty glumes, floral glumes, and palea^ a little shorter 

 than in the species. 



Southern California, Orcutt. 



Texas to California. 



10. S. congesta L. H. Dewey, Coult. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 2:538 (1894). 



