No. r>. 

 PHALARIS LEMMONI Vasey, Oontr. Ntit. Heil). iii. 12. 



Plant aunual, witli few. slender roots. 



Culm erect, simple, slender, terete, smooth, naked above, 12 to 20 inches hiii;h. 



LeaiH's from the base, with loose, smooth sheaths, and narrow, flat, slifjlitly hispid 

 blades, 3 to ') inches long. Leaves of cnlin about 4; sheaths striate, smooth, close, 

 shorter than the internodes; blades flat or folded, hi.spiduloiis, acute, erect or but 

 slightly spreading, 1 to 3 inches long; ligule membranaceous, obtuse, 3 lines long. 



In florescence a (•,\os(i almost spike-like panicle, U to 3 inches long and ;', inch wide; 

 branches mostly alternate, racemose, 4 inch long, crowded with nearly sessile spikelels. 



Sp ikelet s ohoviita, 1-flowered, 2 to 2i lines long; empty glumes 4; outer pair equal, 

 ovate, acute, carinatc but not winged, slightly hispiduluus on the three proniinent 

 nerves, 2 to2i lines long; inner i)air inconspicuous, hairy scales appressed to I lie lower 

 angle of the perfect floret; floral glume broadly ovate, acuminate, clothed throughout 

 with short, appressed, brittle hairs, obscurely nerved, coriaceous, completely enclosing 

 the grain, 1.] lines long; palet ovate, acute, minutely pubescent above, ciliate at apex, 

 obscurely 2-uerved, 1 line long. 



Plate V; a, si)ikelet with empty glunies sliglitly s])rcad; h, outer rmi)ty glumes; 

 c, floret and inner empty glumes; d. inner empty glumes; e, palet. 



California and Arizona. 



