GRASSES OF IOWA. 



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Frc 170. Melica parviflora—&, spikelet; b, empty 

 glumes. (Div. Agros. U. 8. Dept. Agrl. ) 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Iowa. Iowa City (Hitchcock, Shimek). 



North America. Shaded canyons, mountains of Colorado, New 

 .Mexico, Arizona, and prairies of southern Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and 

 western Texas. 



3. MELICA MUTICA. 



Melica tnutica Walt. PI. Car. 78. 1788. Watson and Coulter. Gray. 

 Man. Bot. 662. pi. 10. 1890. (6 ed.) Scribner. Grasses of Tenn. Bull. 

 Univ. Tenn. Agrl. Exp. Sta. 7: 101. f. 136. 1894. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Div. Agros. 7: 263. /. 257. 1900. (3 ed.) Beal. Grasses of N. A. 2: 

 505. 1896. Nash in Britton and Brown. 111. Fl. 1: 195. /. 440. 1896. 



Melica tnutica var. glabra A. Gray. Man. 626. 1867. (5 ed.) 



