IIOKDE^. 



645 



Montana, Scrihner 429, 430. 



Shaded borders, Hound Creek, and by springs near the head of 

 Jan Coulie or Tiger Battle, Aug. 3, 1883. Number 430 has the 

 shorter awns, and the floral glumes scabrid; number 429 has the 

 longer awns and the floral glumes puberulent. 



3. H. pratense Iluds. Fl. Angl. Ed. 2, 5G (1762). H. nodosmn 

 L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 126 (1762). //. secalinum Schreb. Spicil. Fl. 

 Lips. 148 (1771). H. jmsiUum Nutt. Gen. 1: 87 (1818). 



Culms 20-70 em. high, often geniculate below. Leaf-blades 

 flat or involute, usually nearly smooth, 10-12 cm. long. Spike 

 exserted, 3-7 cm. long, about 7 mm. 

 wide, readily separating Avhen ma- 

 ture, each joint of racliis 1.3-2 mm. 

 long. Empty glumes all very nar- 

 row, subulate from the base and 

 slightly scabrous ; lateral spikelets 

 borne on stipes 0.5-0.7 mm. long, 

 lanceolate, awn-pointed ; central 

 floret cylindrical, about 8 mm. long 

 with a short awn. Grain elliptical. 



Col. W. Munro in Proc. Lin. 

 Soc. p. 50, 1862, says in reference 



to the grasses of Linnaeus' Herbari- Fig. 123. - Hordeum pratense. 

 ^ Two views or n spikelet. (bcno- 



um: " H. nodosum 2d l^dit. Sp. PI. uer.) 



Y>. 126, is certainly H. pratense Huds., of which there are also two 



other specimens without any name, and tlie species does not seem 



to have been taken up by Linnaeus." 



Iowa, Hitchcock; Illinois, Patterson for U. S. Dept. Agricul. 

 778, Canhy, Bell for Dr. Clark 2966; Missouri, Belb; Montana, 

 Williams h?>4i\ Louisiana, Z^w^r/ois; Wyoming, ^«_/fw7n C 42 ; Ari- 

 zona, Toumey 763, 773; Vancouver Island, Macoun; Washington, 

 Lake, Suksdorf; California, Jones 2522. 



Found in western States and Territories, usually in alkaline 

 soils. 



4. H. MARiTiMUM With. Bot. Arr. 1 : 172 (1776). Sea-barley. 

 H. cMlense^. & S. Syst. 2:796 (1817). H. fjeniculatum M\. Fl. 



