No. S2. 



POA PULCHELLA var. MAJOR Vasoy var. iiov. 



Pliint perennial, ciL-spitose at tlio base, with a hrancliiiij,' rootstock. 



Culms erect, or decumbent below and somewhat gcni(;ulate, slender, smooth, 



1 foot tall. 



Lvaris from tlie l)ase iinmorons, with rather broad, scarions sheaths and flat or 

 convolute, smooth blades 1 line or less wide, li to 1 inches long- : leaves dl' the culm usually 

 2, with close, striate, smooth sheaths shorter than the interuodes, and erect, fliit blades 

 : to 2 inches hmg; ligule atlcimate ]>ointed, 2 to 3 lines long. 



Injlorescciicc a loose, open panicle 2 to 4 inches long; rays slender, nearly smooth, 

 Hexuous, mostly in pairs at the 4 or 5 nodes, spreading or horizontal, 2^ inches long 

 or less, J)earing 1 to 3 sjiikelets near the extremities. 



S]>ikrlelx oblong, compressed, 3 to 4 hues long, 3- to 5-flowered with a rudiment; 

 empty glumes ovate, acute or obtuse, smooth, the first 1-nerved, 1 to 1^ linas long, 

 thesecouil 3 nerved and slightly longer than the first, but both shorter than the lower 

 florets; tloral glume lance-ovate, ol)tuse and erose or nearly acute at the scarions 

 apex, minutely scabrid on the keel and nerves or throughout, not webbed, 5-nei ved, 



2 lines long; palet obTong, bidentate or obtuse and erose, i>ubescent on the keels, 

 nearly as long as the glume. 



Plate LXXXII; «, spikelet; /y, floret opened. 



Southern Oregon in the same locality as the species proper, which difTers from 

 the variety in being smaller, except in the spikelets, and in the short, filifbrm radical 

 leaves, obtuse ligules, and more obtuse and coarsely erose glumes. Species described 

 in Bot. Gaz. vii. 32. 



