534 GRAMINACEAE, [ Festuca. 
3 ft. high, with brown nodes, the internodes 2—3’ long. Leaves very 
narrow, 1—11/2 ft. long and 2—2'/2" broad, plane, glabrous, pe Batts 
icle 
6—8‘ long, straight, open; 5—8 filiform rays to a node idea are put 
long and divide near their ends; the rhachis and rays pubernlous. Spike- 
lets lax, 4-5” X 2—2!/2', pale-green, 5—9-flowered. Empty glumes 
Sicacelake- acute, 3-nerved, eee than the contiguous florets, the first 
“, the second 1p jo‘ long. Flowering glumes linear-lanceolate, 2“ long, 
3-nerved, ciliate along the nerves, acute, not awned, hyaline at the apex. 
Paleae a little shorter. Lodicules 2-lobed. Anthers 3, linear, yellow, on 
short filaments. Styles short, with densely plumose stigmas. » 
auai, Halemanu pile on — Reichardt places it next to F. insularis, Steud., 
Chili, and to F. nervosa, Hook. This latter species, however, figures in the ja ee: 
California, II, 313, as a synonym . of Poa stenantha, Trin. — But for the 3-nerved flowerin 
glumes, of which He is not stated whether they are convex or keeled, the description fits 
well to my Poa longe-radiata. 
+2. F. myurus, L. — Kunth, Enum. Pl. I, 396. — A small tufted annual 
without sterile shoots, the slender stems 10— 15! long, geniculate and 
densely foliose at the base, the uppermost leaf at the base of the pani icle. 
Leaves filiform, glabrous, 3—4‘ long, the sheath with 2 auricles at the 
mouth; the ligule very short. Panicle linear, one-sided, erect or nodding, 
3—5' long, the Sata and sc soy rays generally single or with a 
shorter second one, appressed, the lowest 1!/2‘ long, bearing 3—6-spikelets 
on short and thick ails sufestoe lanceolate, 3—4“ long without the 
awns, compressed, distantly 4—5-flowered. Empty glumes thin, linear- 
rps acute, the lower very small Laie the upper about 11/1‘ long, 
1-nerved. Flowering glumes terete, involvi e palea, apa pubescent, 
sche 2“ long, ciate 5-nerved, gradually one out into a serrate awn of 
twice their own length. Paleae puberulous, ee ak. ecaints along 
the keels. Stamen 1. Stigmas subsessile at the angles of the truncate 
glabrous ovary. —- I’. bromoides, var. monandra, Parl. 
E. Maui! Makawao. A native of southern Europe, also found in California. 
+3. F. drymeia, Mert. ¢ Koch, Flora Deutschlands, I, 670. — A stout 
grass, the stems 2—4 ft. high, with the uppermost leaf at the base of 
the — and exceeding it. Leaves flat, over 1 ft. long, 3-4” broad, 
seabrous. Li road, rounded. Panicle pyramidal, open, about 1 ft. 
long, a patent scabrous rays in distant fascicles, 2—3 only at the lowest 
nodes, 6—7‘ long, dividing beyond the middle, the branches with few 
— on long pedicels. ~~ 6, elliptico-oblong, 5—6- - flowered, 
a scabrous rhachis. Empty glumes linear-lanceolate, acute, § smooth, 
siete than the next florets, the saa 2—21/2 and 1-nerved, the uppe? 
3—3!/2“ and 3-nerved. Flowering glumes coriaceous, 4’ long, convex, acute, 
