No. 1.-?. 

 STIPA SETIGERA I'resl. Rel. H.Tnk. i. 226. 



Plant perenuial, tutted, somewhat bulbous at base. 



Culms erect, slender, terete, slightly hispid or smooth, pubescent at tlic luidos, 2 

 to 3 feet hish. 



LcarcK from the base, narrow, fllilorm involute, 10 to 20 inclies loiij;. Leaves uf culm 

 usually.'!; lower sheaths close and shorter than the inteniodes, upper ones usually loose 

 and longer, hispidulous, often ciliate at the throat; blades tlat or involute, 2 lines wide 

 at base, hispid on both surfaces or nearly smooth below, to 10 inches long; ligule 

 membranaceous, oblicpiely truncate, 1 line long. 



Iiijlorcscoicc a loose, tlexuous jtanicle to 12 inches long, usually included at the 

 base; branches mostly in pairs or threes, often pubescent at the axils, spreading, tlexu- 

 ous, subdivided, and bearing on scabrous pedicels .'5 to 12 spikelets beyond the middle, 

 or the shorter ones spikelet-bcaring nearly to the base. 



Spikelets lanceolate, 1-tiowered; empty glumes slightly spreading, narrowly-lanceo- 

 late, convex and ])Uiple below, cariiiate, white and membranaceous above, slightly 

 hispid on the keel, .'5 nerved or the upper rarely ."» nerved, (i to !• lines long, nearly 

 equal or the upper 1 to 2 lines shorter; stipe curved, acute, bearded, 1 line long; tloret 

 spindle shaped, constricted below the ciliate ajjcx, gibbous ."? to 4 lines long, "jf line 

 thick; tloral glume cliartaceous, tuberculate-rougliened, cIoUkmI with appiessed brittle 

 hairs, naked except the nerves at maturity, 5nerved ; awn i)ubescent, especially below, 

 pur])le or gold color, tlexuous, ." inches long: palet ovate, ^ line long; lodicules minute; 

 anthers bearded at a|»ex; grain spindle shaped, light yellow, 2{ lines long. 



Plate XIll; «, spikelet enlarged about twice; h. enijity glumes; <-. tloret. 



California, chieliy south of the .Sacramento \'alley. It has evidently been con- 

 fused with (S'. cminvns and aS". leucotrkha, and has thus been si)oken of as having a 

 wider range. Prof. Brewer speaks of it as a valuable '-bunch-grass" of the dry foot- 

 hiUs. 



