FESTUCE^. 507 



flexuose, single or in pairs, sometimes in threes, the longest 3-4 

 cm. long, bearing 2-4 spikelets. Sjiikelets 3-8-tiowered, joint of 

 raehillii 1.5 mm. long; empty glumes ovate, obtuse, or acute with 

 transverse nerves near the middle, first glume 3-nerved, 4-5 mm. 

 long, second 5-nerved, 5-G mm. long; floral glume 7-8 mm. long, 

 tibru])tly tapering, oval, the apex with 2 very short teeth or a 

 notch, 7-9-nerved, with cross nerves; palea elliptical, 5 mm. 

 long. Professor Scribner says: "This grass has been referred to 

 ■Geyer's M. hulbosa by authors, but aside from its affecting higher 

 elevations, it is readily distinguished from that species by its usu- 

 ally taller and more slender culms, by its more open and nodding 

 panicle, by the more slender and flexuose pedicels, by its shorter 

 empty glumes, and by its broader flowering glumes, which taper 

 abruptly to a rounded and usually two-lobed sunmiit." 



Montana, Anderson, Williams; Oregon, Cusich 851. 



Montana, Oregon, and California. 



16. M. Californica Scribn. Proc. Phila. Acad. 46 (1885). M. 

 fomides Torr, Pac. II. Eep. 4:15? (1857), not Nutt. M. hulbosa 

 Thurb. S. AVats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 304 (1880), not Geyer (1856). 



Culms slender, 30-80 cm. high, with corms and woolly-pubes- 

 cent roots. Leaves 4-5 in number, sheaths shorter than tho inter- 

 nodes, scabrous, ligule 3 mm. long, brown and pubes- 

 cent below; blades firm, scabrous, involute, 8-12 

 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide. Panicle 10-15 cm. long, 

 spikelike, interrujited below, rays mostly in jiairs, 

 the longest 3-4 cm. long. Spikelets scabrid, 2-3- 

 flowered on erect stout pedicels, joint of rachilla 2 

 mm. long, first empty glume ovate, 3-5-nerved, about 

 6 mm. long, second elliptical, 5-7-nerved, aljout 7 

 mm. long; floral glume 6-7 mm. long, oval, apexpj^ 101 — il/>- 



obtuse or notched, minutely scabrous, 7-9-nerved; ^*'^'* Califor- 

 nica. Spikelet. 

 palea elliptical, about 5 mm. long. The plant seen (Scribner.) 



was marked M. hulbosa Ueyer, and from M. E. Jones, collected at 



Kelsey, California. 



Utah, Watson 1303; AVyoming, Parry 295; Idaho, Watson 



-455; Oregon, Cusich 9,\^; California, Jones. 



