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GBAMINEAE 



flowered; glumes and lemmas broad, rather soft; awn of the lemma about 

 i/2 line long. 



Mt. Dana, above timber-line (the only known locality in California), Bolan- 

 der (no. 6100) and Brewer (no. 5066 in part). Arctic America, south in the 

 Rocky Mts. to Arizona and Blue Mts. of Oregon. 



Refs. FESTUCA BRACHYPHYLLA Schult. Mant. 3: 646. 1827. F. brevifolia R. Br. App. 

 Parry 's Voy. Suppl. 289. 1824, not Muhl. 1817. F. ovina L. var. brevifolia Wats. U. S. Expl. 

 40th Par. 5: 389. 1871; Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 317. 1880. Rydberg refers the above 

 specimens to F. minutiflora Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 32: 608. 1905 (type from Colorado). 



17. F. supina Schur. Culms erect, densely tufted, 3 to 6 inches high ; blades 

 numerous, usually less than !/> the length of the culm, involute, smooth, firm 

 and hard, scarcely angled in drying ; inflorescence about as in F. brachyphylla, 

 the lemmas firmer, narrower, involute and more scabrous, the florets looser and 

 more numerous and the awn longer. 



In the high Sierra Nevada from Mono Lake south, and in the San Bernar- 

 dino Mts., mostly above 11,000 feet altitude; extends from Greenland to the 

 White Mts. of New Hampshire and from British Columbia and Alberta south 

 in the mountains to Arizona and California. 



Loes. White Mts., Shockley 616; Mt. Dana, Hall $ Babcock 3608; Mt. Lyell, Hitchcock 

 3293; Kings River, Lemmon in 1902; Denels Peak, Hall $ Babcock 5514; Sawtooth Peak, 

 Hall $ Babcock 5676; Farewell Gap, Purpus 5117; Mt. Whitney, Hitchcock 3444; Grayback 

 Mt., Reed 2740 ; San Gorgowo Mt., Hall 7639. 



Refs. FESTUCA SUPINA Schur. Enum. PI. Transs. 784. 1866. F. ovina L. var. supina Hack. 

 Bot. Centr. 8: 405. 1881. 



18. F. viridula Vasey. Culms rather loosely tufted, erect, smooth, 2 to 3 

 feet high ; sheaths smooth ; blades erect, 1 line wide or less, soft, scaberulous 

 above, often more or less involute ; panicle loose and open, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 the branches ascending; spikelets 3 to 6-flowered; glumes membranaceous, 

 smooth, about 1% lines long; lemmas firm, membranaceous, keeled toward the 

 apex, acute or somewhat mucronate, 3 to 3^2 lines long. 



Subalpine meadows, Washington and Idaho to the high mountains of centra 

 California. 



Locs. Geysers, Sonoma Co., Bolander 3945; Webber Lake, Leiberg 5262; Donner Lake 

 Davy 3222 ; Sierra Valley, Brewer 1976 ; Mt. Tallae, Hitchcock 3155. 



Refs. FESTUCA VIRIDULA Vasey, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. 13 2 : pi. 93. 1893, tyi 

 collected in California by Bolander. F. gracillima [Hook, misapplied by] Thurb. in Wat 

 Bot. Cal. 2: 318. 1880. 



19. F. californica Vasey. Culms tufted, stout, coarse, usually 3 to 5 feet 

 high, scabrous, sheaths somewhat scabrous, the lower persistent, the collar anc 

 auricles pilose ; blades flat or becoming involute when- dry, hard and firm, sca- 

 brous, the lower much elongated; panicle large, usually loose and open, the 

 branches few, long and slender, naked below, bearing a few large spikelet 

 toward the ends; spikelets compressed, about 5-flowered; glumes oblong- 

 lanceolate, firm, smooth, except the scabrous keel, 3 to 4 lines long; lernm? 

 4 to 5 lines long, lanceolate, convex, firm, scabrous, acuminate or short-awned. 



Meadows, shady banks and borders of woods, in the Coast Ranges from Mon- 

 terey Co. (Davy 7344) to Humboldt Co. (Davy 6599) and Mt. Shasta (Hellei 

 7944) ; north to Oregon. 



Refs. FESTUCA CALIFORNICA Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 1: 277. 1893, type from San Fran- 

 cisco, Bolander 1505; Davy in Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 69. 1901. F. scabrella [Torr. miss 

 plied by] Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 318. 1880. F. kalmii Gray var. aristulata Torr. U. 

 Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif . 4 : 157. 1856, type from Mark West Creek, Bigelow in 1854. F. aristi 

 lata Shear; Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb. 10: 32. 1906. Bromus depauperatus [Presl, misapplie 

 by] Thurb. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2 : 320. 1880. The specimen in the Gray Herbarium (Bolart 



