290 GRASSES OF IOWA. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Broad Glumed Brome Grass. Culms very leafy; sheaths usually 

 much overlapping, and furnished with a rather conspicuous, pilose-pubes- 

 cent ring at the summit. Spikelets and flowering glumes rather broader 

 than in the species. The pubescence at the base of the flowering glume 

 is slightly denser than elsewhere. In other respects like the species. July 

 to August. See figure 201, on page 289. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Iowa. Boone (Carver) ; Mt. Pleasant (Mills) ; Woodbine (Bur- 

 gess) ; Ames, Iowa City (Hitchcock, P. H. Rolfs, F. Rolfs, Ball; see 

 Shear, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 23:41) ; Spirit Lake (Miss 

 Wakefield) ; Decatur County (Fitzpatrick) ; Jackson County (see 

 Shear, Bull. U. S. Dept. of Agrl. Div. Agros. 23:41 ) ; Rock Rapids 32 

 (Shimek); Dakota City (see Shear, Bull U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. 

 Agros. 23:41), Muscatine, Sioux City 222 (Pammel) ; Ames (Beards- 

 lee) ; Forest City (see Shear, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 

 23:41, Shimek) ; Iowa City (Miss Linder) ; Mason City (Pammel) : 

 Steamboat Pock (Miss King). 



North America. Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Wiscon- 

 sin (La Crosse, Pammel), South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Montana 

 and Missouri. 



5. BROMUS CILIATUS. 



Brotnus ciliatus L. Sp . PI. 76. Watson and Coulter. Gray. Man. Bot. 

 670. 1890. (6ed.) Scribner. Grasses of Tenn. Bull. Univ. Tenn. Agrl. 

 Exp. Sta. 7: 118. /. 167. 1894. Beal. Grasses of N. A. 2: 618 1896. 

 Nash in Britton and Brown. 111. Fl. 1: 219. f . 506 . 1896. Scribner. Bull. 

 U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 17: 287. /. 583. 1899 Shear. Studies in Am. 

 Grasses. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 23: 31. 190|. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Fringed Brome Grass. A tall, rather slender, leafy perennial: 

 with a broad, lax, drooping panicle. Culm erect, smooth or slightly 

 pubescent at the dark nodes, about 3 to 6 feet (7-12 dm.) high. Sheaths 

 retrorsely short-pilose, or nearly smooth, coarsely striate; ligule very 

 short, rarely extending I line (1 mm.); blades rather broadly linear- 

 lanceolate, weak, about 1 to l\ feet (2.5-3.5 dm.) long, and \ inch (1 

 2m.) broad, typically sparsely pilose on both sides, but sometimes almost 



