No. 14. 

 STIPA SPECIOSA Trill. Mil. 1 i;ii|.r. Stipacoic, 45. 



Plant peri'iiiiial. witli ce.siiitose, Imlbous base, and I'uur.sc woolly roots. 



Culms erect, simple, terete, siuootli or .slightly liispid, 1 to 2 feet bigli. 



Lean.s from tlic base miineroiis, witli mostly scarions, rcddisli sbcatlis. siiiootli or 

 velvety piibeseciit and liliformcoin'olute, smooth or slightly scabrous t>lades, 5 to 12 

 inches loii};-. Leaves of the culm iisuallyS; sheaths rather loo.se, upper one vaginate and 

 inclosing the lower jiart of the panicle, striate, scabrous, nearly as long as the inter- 

 nodes; blades sleiider|i(iinted. less convolute and shorter than those oi' the radical 

 tuft; ligule a shnrl liiiiluiate membrane. 



IiiJIiirrscciKr '.y narrow, erect, strict i)anicle, •'! to 7 iiiclies long, included at lirst; 

 branches mostly in twos or thiees, nnciinal, the shorter spikelet-beariny to the base, the 

 louger bearing about (i pedicellate sjjikelets beyond the lowest third. 



Spih'h'ts si)iiidle shaped, 1 flowered, 7 to 8 lines long; empty glumes lanc«^olate, 

 slcndcr-iKiinted, often lacerate lu'ar the apex, nii'mbranaccous above, smooth, 7 to 8 

 lines long; first glume .'j-uerved; second glume 5-nerved; stipe curved, slender-pointed, 

 bearded, j-J to 1 line long; floret narrowly sjiiiidle-sliaped, '.ih lines long and about h line 

 thick: tloral glume chartaceous, clotheil with rather stiff i)ubesccnce, which is slightly 

 longer and scarcely tufted at the a])ex, obscurely o nerved; awn articulated, often 

 deciduous, sharply bent at the middle, twisted and copiously plumose below, smooth, 

 slender, and dark-colored above, 2 inches long; i)alet oblong, obtuse, boat-shaped, 

 pubescent between the 2 nerves, 2.\ lines long; anthers exsei-ted, naked; lodicules 

 slender, a line long; grain spindle-shaited, yellow, with a white line on the ventral side, 

 opaque, .J lines Icmg. 



PLA'i't; .\1\'; a, .spikelet partly dissected, enlarged twicte. 



California, extending east to Arizona and southern IMah. Throughout the same 

 range is found iS. xpecifmi.y.xv. rliri/sojihyllti, wiiicli may include several variable forms, 

 usually lefcrred to S. chriixoplijilhi. It is geneially only I! to 10 inches high, with 

 a i)anicle 2 to 4 inches long, tJie parts of the spikelet varying to slightly smaHcr than 

 those of the si)ecies. 



