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Refs. MELICA INFLATA Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 1: 269. 1893. M. poaeoides Nutt. var. 

 inflata Boland. Proe. Cal. Acad. 4: 101. 1870, type from Yosemite Valley, Bolander 6121. 

 Mentioned under M. bulbosa Geyer, by Thurber (Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 304. 1880). 



9. M. stricta Boland. Culms V 2 to iy 2 feet high, the base somewhat thick- 

 ened but not bulbous ; panicle narrow, few-flowered, nearly simple, usually 1 

 or 2 branches below; spikelets large, about y 2 inch long, reflexed on rather 

 delicate pedicels; glumes nearly as long as spikelet, longer than the lower 

 lemma; lemmas scabrous, obtuse, awnless. 



Kocky slopes and banks, Eagle Lake (Jones) through the Sierra Nevada to 

 Sequoia Nat. Park (Hall & Babcoclc 5684) and Coso Mts. (Coville & Funston 

 936), and in the Coast Ranges (Mt. Pinos, Kern Co., Hall 6404) to San Bernar- 

 dino Mts. (Parish Bros. 1553) ; north into Oregon and east to Utah. 



Refs. MELICA STRICTA Boland. Proc. Cal. Acad. 3: 4. 1863; op. cit. 4: 104. 1872; Thurb. 

 in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 303. 1880. 



10. M. frutescens Scribn. Culms 2 to 6 feet high, rather woody below, not 

 bulbous at base; blades short, especially on the branches and innovations; 

 panicle silvery-shining, narrow, the branches short and appressed; spikelets 

 about i/o inch long ; glumes about as long as the spikelet, prominently 5-nerved ; 

 lemmas acute, entire, awnless, 7-nerved. 



Southern California to Lower California. 



Locs. Panainint Canon, Hall fy Chandler 7031; Riverside, Griffiths 7851; San Jacinto, 

 Jones 3554; Masons, Brandegee 135 in 1896; Bernardo, Abrams 3361; San Diego Co., M earns 

 3033. 



Refs. MELICA FRUTESCENS Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1885 : 45. 1885, type locality, vicinity 

 of San Diego, several specimens cited, the first being Parry $ Lemmon 401. 



11. M. bulbosa Geyer. Culms 2 to 4 feet high, the base usually decumbent 

 and often more or less bulbous or corm-like ; lower sheaths on the older culms 

 persistent, brown and split into numerous fibers; panicle narrow, rather 

 densely flowered, 4 to 8 inches long, tawny or purplish, not silvery shining; 

 spikelets 5 to 6 lines long, papery, 3 or 4-flowered; second glume about 3 l /2 

 lines long ; lemmas rather prominently 7-nerved, awnless. 



Mountain meadows and rocky woods, Ventura Co. north to Oregon and Nevada. 

 The following specimens are softly pubescent: Northfork, Griffiths 4415; Yo- 

 semite Valley, Chase 5712 ; Tehachapi, Chase 5734. 



Refs. MELICA BULBOSA Geyer; Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 304. 1800. M. calif ornica Scribn. 

 Proc. Acad. Phila. 1885: 46. 1885; Davy in Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 62. 1901. M. poaeoides 

 [Nutt. misapplied by] Torr. U. S. Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4: 157. 1857; Boland. Proe. Cal. 

 Acad. 4: 101. 1870. (M. bulbosa Geyer in Hook. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 8: 19. 1856, and 

 in Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 8: 409. 1872, are both nomina nuda. See also U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Div. Agrost. Cire. 27: 10. 1900.) M. longiligula Scribn. & Kearn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. 

 Agrost. Bull. 17: 225. f. 521. 1899, type Parish Bros. 865. 



12. M. torreyana Scribn. Culms from a loose and decumbent base, 1 to 3 

 feet high, not bulbous; blades flat, lax; panicle narrow, rather loose, the 

 branches more or less fascicled, appressed or ascending, the lower fascicles dis- 

 tant; spikelets 2 to 3 lines long, with 1 or 2 perfect florets and a rudiment; 

 glumes strongly nerved, nearly as long as spikelet; lemmas pubescent; rudi- 

 ment long-pediceled, obovpid-truncate, divergent. 



Thickets and banks at low altitudes, central California, especially in the 

 Bay region. 



Locs. Mendocino Co., McMurphy 422; Butte Co., Heller 5511; Sacramento, Michener 154; 

 Mariposa Co., Congdon; various localities in the Bay region from Mt. Tamalpais to Santa 

 Cruz, Baker 2815, Bolander 1539, 6076, Davy 4257, 7857, Heller 5084, 8397, Hitchcock 2668, 

 Palmer 2046, Piper 6304, 6339, Rutter 97. 



