BAMBUSE^. 



657 



Agricul. 796; New York, Beal 1G8; Michigan, Wheeler, 

 Clark 734; Wisconsin, Holzinger. 



Moist woods. New England to Minnesota and 

 Texas. 



2. A. Californica (Boland.). Gymuostichum 

 GaUfornicnm Boland. Cat. 35 (1870); Thurb. S. 

 Wats. Bot. Calif. 2:337 (1880). As2)rella Cali- 

 fornica Benth. 



Culms 1-2 m. high. Sheaths, at least the 

 lower, clothed with short stiff spreading hairs; 

 lignle very short; blades flat, ample, scabrous, 

 10-25 mm. wide. Spikes 15-25 cm. long, flexuose, 

 interrupted below, dense above. Spikelets mostly 

 in pairs, 1-3-flowered, on very short callus-like 

 pedicels, with little trace of empty glumes, ap- 

 pressed, at least when young ; floral glume 12 

 mm. long, broadly lanceolate, 5-6 -nerved above, 

 the nerves, especially the marginal ones, ciliate- 

 hispid with short stiff rather distant white hairs; 

 awn stout, rough, straight, one-half longer than 

 its glume; palea equal to its glume, ciliate above. 

 When young much resembling Elyuius condeti* 

 satus. 



California, Anderson for U. S. Nat. Herb. 



California. 



Beal, 



Tribe III.— BAMBUSEJE. 



Fig. 125. 

 perella 

 trix. 



let. (Scr 



— As. 

 Hys. 



Spike, 

 ibuer. ) 



Spikelets 2-8- (rarely 1-) flowered, in jianicles or racemes. 

 Empty glumes 2 to many, shorter than the nearest floral glumes; 

 floral glume many-nerved, awnless or with a short straight terminal 

 awn; palea 2- to many-nerved, rarely nerveless. Lodicules usually 3, 

 very large. Stamens 3 to many. Styles 2-3, often united at the 

 base. Grain free. Tall woody grasses, with bioad blades usually 

 articulate at the sheath. 



151. (277). Arundinaria Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:73 (1803). 

 Miegia Pers. Syn. 1:101 (1805). Ludolfia Willd. Ges. Naturf. 



