FESTUCE.E. 503 



Col. 149 (1874). M. Porteri Scribn. Proc. Philti. Acad. 1885, 44, 

 t. 1, f. 44 (1885). 



Culms slender, GO-80 cm. high. Sheaths scabrous, longer tlian 

 the internodes ; ligule white, 4 mm. long; blades 6-7 in number, 

 flat or becoming involute, scabrous, 20-30 cm. long, ;)-4 nmi. wide. 

 Panicle sinijile, 20-30 cm. long, rays in threes and fours or fewer in 

 half-whorls, remote from each other 4-7 cm., the longest 6-7 cm. 

 long, bearing a few spikelets above the middle on hairy pedicels 

 turned to one side. Spikelets 3-5-flowered, longest joint of rachilla 

 2.5-3.5 mm. long, first glume 5-7 mm. long, ovate, 5-nerved; 

 second 6-7 mm. long, broadly oval, acute, 7-nerved ; floral glume 

 7-9 mm. long, firm, scabrous, elliptical, acute, 7-14-nerved; 2:)alea 

 5-6 mm. long, spatulate, acute. 



Texas, Nealleif ; New Mexico, Wright 2063, Jones 4134 ; Ari- 

 zona, PrinfjJe, Hotln'och 805 ; Rocky Mountains, Hall tC Harbour 

 228. 



Nebraska, Colorado, and Arizona. 



9. M. stricta Boland. Proc. Calif. Acad. 3:4 (1863). 

 Densely tufted, 20-50 cm. high. Sheaths longer than the 



internodes, scabrid or pubescent; ligule white, lacerate, 4 mm. long; 

 blades 4-5 in number, sometimes scabrous above and 2)ubescent 

 beneath, the apex convolute and rigid, 10-15 cm. long, 4 mm. 

 wide. Panicle very simple, or instead often a secund raceme, 10- 

 15 cm. long, bearing 9-12-20 spikelets. Spikelets borne on slender 

 curved, finely jmbescent pedicels, 2-4-flowered, longest joint of 

 slender racliilla 2.5 mm. long; empty glumes subequal, 12-15 mm. 

 long, elliptical when sjjread, acute, almost hyaline, 5-nerved ; floral 

 glume narrowly elliptical, 5-nerved ; palea spatulate-linear, 5 mm. 

 long. 



Oregon (Stein's Mountain), Howell; California, Gray, Greene,, 

 Bolander, Pringle ; Nevada, Watson \ZOb. 



Montana, Oregon, California, and Nevada. 



10. M. frutescens Scribn. Proc. Phila. Acad. 45 (1885). 

 Culms stout, 70-100 cm. high, simple or branched near the base 



or near the top. Sheaths about 8 in number, longer than the in- 

 ternodes; ligule 4-5 mm. long, rather firm and brown below; blades 



