No. 62. 

 MELICA BROMOIDES C.vny, Troc. Amer. Acad. viii. 409 (1873). 



J'laut peiTiiuial, tutted, bulbous at tbe base. 



Culms erect, simple, slender, smooth, 2 to 4 feet tall. 



Leans of ciiliii 4 to 0; slicatbs rctroi'sely scabrid, closer, half ojhmi at tlic (broat, 

 mostly shorter tliaii the inteniodes; lilades tlat or loosely involute, scabrid al)ove, 

 slender-pointed, lA to 4 lines wide, 6 to 12 inches long; ligule membranaceous, round 

 ish obtuse, about 1 line long. 



Jnfiorcsccnce, a loose, erect, or somewhat Ih-xuous paniele, often secund, ♦) to I(» 

 inches long; rays mostly in twos at the 6 to 8 rather distant nodes of the scabrous 

 (;oinnn>n axis, .3 inc^hes long or less, bearing i)ediecllate spikelets ijeyoinl the middle or 

 Scattered thronghout. 



Spikelets lanceolate, compressed, rather loosely 4- to (i-flowered, 6 to 9 inches long ; 

 empty glumes ovate, acute, smooth, membranaceous above, purjtle below, the tirst 

 3 nerved at base, 2 to 3 lines long, the se(M(nd 1 line longer and .">nerve(l l)elow; lloral 

 glume broadly lanceolate, usually unecpially 2-toothed or emarginate, scarious-margined 

 above, nnnutely scal)rid, 7-nerved, 4 to .') lines long; palet lance-oblong, nearly acute 

 at the apex, pubescent <m the 2 keels, 3 to 3^ lines long; stamens 3, on slender tila- 

 ments. 



Platk LXII; fl, spikelet; ft, empty glumes; c, floral glume, dorsal view ; rf, palet 



with margins infolded. 



California to Oregon, in the mountain.s. It would i)robably l)e vahiable in culti- 

 vatiou on the higher mesas. 



