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lished by R. Brown as a doubtful Colpodiiim uow forms Grise- 

 bach's genus Arciagrostis. 



1. C. fulvum (Trin.) Griseb. Ledb. Fl. Eoss. 4:385 (1853). 

 Poa fiilva Triu. Act. Petrop. (VI.) 1: 378 (1831). Ghjceria fnlva 

 Fries, Summ. Veg. Scaud. 244 (184G-9). Grapliephorwn. fulvuin 

 A. Gray, Ann. Bot. Soe. Canada, 57 (1861). 



A stout perennial, 20-00 cm. liigb, smooth from culm to floral 

 glume. Leaves 4-6-12; ligule lacerate, 3 mm. long; blades flat, 

 pungent-pointed or sometimes obtuse, 5-25 cm. long, 5-8 mm. 

 wide. Panicles exserted, open, thin, ovoid, 8-15 cm. long, rays in 

 fours and fives, drooping, the longest 5-8 cm. long, bearing a few 

 spikelets on the outer half. Sjiikelets pedicellate, oval or oblong, 

 4— G-flowered, 5-6 cm. long; first glume lance-ovate, 1-nerved, about 

 3 mm. long; second oval-acute or obtuse, 3-nerved, 4.5 mm. long; 

 floral glume broad-oval, obtuse, 3-5-nerved, about 4 mm. long; 

 palea obtuse or 2-toothed, 3.5 mm. long. Anthers 1.8 mm. long. 



Alaska, Harrington, Murdoch 55; British Columl^ia, McKay; 

 Greenland, Wriglif ; Bering Sea, Dr. C. Hart Merriam in 1801. 



2. C. pendulinum Griseb. Ledb. Fl. Ross. 4:386 (1853). 

 Graphepliorum 2^^^^dulinum A. Gray, Ann. Bot. Soc. Canada 



Fig. 110. — Colpodium pendulinum. A, spikelet; a, floret. (Scribner.) 

 (1861). Poa Laestadii Rupr. Beitr. Pfl. Russ. Reich. 2: 62 (1845). 

 ArctopJiila Livstadii Rupr.; Beitr. Pfl. Russ. Reich. 2:62 (1845). 



