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Culms rather slender, 90-180 cm. from a bulbous base. 

 Sheaths smooth or scabrid, about the length of the internodes; 

 ligule white-fringed, 3-4 mm. long; blades 4 in number, erect, 

 scabrous, 15-35 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide. Panicle simple, 15-25 

 cm. long; rays in twos, the longest 4-9 cm. long, bearing 2-5 spike- 

 lets on tlie outer three-fifths. Spikelets 5-8-flowered, 12-18 mm, 

 long, joint of rachilla 2-2.5 mm. long, glumes scabrid, empty ones 

 oval, first 3-5-nerved (the lateral nerves very short), 7 mm. long, 

 second 5-7-nerved, 8 mm. long: floral glume oval, scabrous, the 

 very tip obtuse, 7-nerved, 8 mm. long; palea elliptical without 

 spreading, 6 mm. long. 



California, Lemmon 5448, BoJander 6121, in herb. U. S. Dept. 

 Agricul. 



5. M. fugax Bolander, Proc. Calif. Acad. 4:104 (1870). J/". 

 Geijeri Thurber, Bot. "Wilkes Exp. 491, not Munro. Ghjceria 

 hdhosa Buckley, Proc. Phila. Acad. 95 (1862). 



Culms slender. 20-60 cm. high, from bulblike bases. Lisfule 

 white, lacerate. 2-3 mm. long: blades 2-3 in number, flat, 10-15 

 cm. long, 2 mm. wide, smooth or scabrid, the lowest short and 

 obtuse, the others setaceous. Panicle simple, 6-12 cm. long, rays 

 remote, soon horizonttd, 1-6-flowered, the longest 3 cm. Ion or. 

 Spikelets 3-5-flowered, tinged with purple, joint of rachilla thick, 

 soft, spongy, 2.3 mm. long: first empty glume 4 mm. long, ovate, 

 3-nerved, second 5 mm. long, broadly oval, 5-7-nerved; floral glume 

 5 mm. long, firm, broadly oval, 7-9-nerved; palea incurved, 5 mm. 

 long. 



Oregon, Hoicell, Cusiclc 1032; California, Bolander, Mrs. 

 Austin, Lemmon. 



Idaho, Oregon, and California. 



6. M. multinervosa Vasey. 



Culms geniculate, 50-90 cm. high, with enlarged bases. 

 Sheaths 3, slightly scabrous, about the length of the internodes; 

 ligule very short, ciliate; blades flat or involute, 20-40 cm. long, 

 2-4 mm. wide. Panicle much exserted, simple, 15-17 cm. long; 

 rays single, the longest 5 cm, long, bearing about 5 spikelets on the 

 outer three-fifths. Spikelets 10-20 mm. long, appressed, linear- 



