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narrow, the branches appressed ; spikelets purple- tinged, rather turgid, 

 10 to 15 mm long, the pedicels capillary, flexuous; glumes broad, 

 papery; lemmas strongly 7-nerved, obtuse, scarious-margined, im- 

 bricate. 91 Rocky or open woods and thickets, Montana to 



FIGURE 381. Melica geyeri. Plant, X 1; FIGURE 382. Melica spedabilis. Plant, 



floret, X 5. (Heller 11932, Calif.) X 1; floret, X 5. (Tweedy 85, Wyo.) 



British Columbia, south to Colorado and northern California (fig. 

 383). 



7. Melica bulbosa Geyer. ONIONGRASS. (Fig. 384.) Culms 30 

 to 60 cm tall, bulbous at base, resembling M. spedabilis; sheaths and 

 blades flat to involute, 2 to 4 mm wide, glabrous, scabrous, or pubescent; 

 panicle narrow, rather densely flowered, the branches short, appressed, 

 rather stiff, mostly imbricate; spikelets papery with age, mostly 7 to 

 15 mm long, the short pedicels stiff, erect; lemmas obscurely nerved. 



