MANUAL OP THE GRASSES OP THE UNITED STATES 



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FIGURE 63. Distribution 

 Festuca myuros. 



ground, British Columbia to Baja California, common in the Coast 

 Ranges of California, east to Idaho and Arizona and a few localities 

 eastward; Pacific slope of South America (fig. 61). In mature lem- 

 mas the cilia may be obscured by the inrolling of the edges; moistening 

 the floret will bring the cilia to view. 



4. Festuca dertonensis (All.) Aschers. and Graebn. (Fig. 62, B.} 

 Resembling F. 

 megalura, the pani- 

 cles on the average 

 shorter, usually 

 less dense; glumes 

 longer, the first 

 about 4 mm long, 

 the second 6 to 7 

 mm long; lemma 

 lanceolate, scabrous 

 on the back toward 

 the apex, 7 to 8 mm 

 long; awn 10 to 13 

 mm long. o 

 Dry hills and mead- 

 ows, British Co- 

 lumbia to southern 

 California; rare as 

 a waif in the East- 

 ern States ; intro- 

 duced from Europe. 

 This species has 

 been referred to F. 

 bromoides L. by 

 American authors. 

 5. Festuca myu- 

 ros L. (Fig. 62, A) 

 Differing from F. 

 megalura chiefly in 

 the absence of cilia 

 on the lemma ; pan- 

 icle usually smaller, 

 first glume 1 to 1.5 

 mm, the second 4 

 to 4.5 mm, long. 

 G Open ground, 

 Coastal Plain, 

 Massachusetts t o 

 Texas ; Ohio ; Pacific coast, Washington to southern California (fig. 63) ; 

 introduced from Europe. 



6. Festuca pacifica Piper. (Fig. 64.) Culms erect or geniculate 

 at base, 30 to 60 cm tall; blades soft, loosely involute, glabrous, 3 to 5 

 cm long; panicle 5 to 12 cm long, the lower branches solitary, some- 

 what distant, subsecund, spreading, 1 to 3 cm long; spikelets 3- to 

 6-flowered; first glume subulate-lanceolate, about 4 mm long, the 

 second lanceolate-acuminate, about 5 mm long; lemmas lanceolate, 

 glabrous or scaberulous, 6 to 7 mm long; awn 10 to 15 mm long. 



FIGURE 64. Festuca pacifica. 

 Panicle, X Yz\ floret, X 5. 

 (Type.) 



FIGURE 65 Distribution 

 Festuca pacifica. 



FIGURE 66. Festuca confusa. Plant, 

 X 1; spikelet, X 5. (Type.) 



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