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(8) Melica fugax Boland., Proc. Calif. Acad. 4: 104. 1870. Donner Lake, 



Calif., [Bolander and Kellogg], 

 Melica geyeri [Munro misapplied by] Thurb., in Wilkes, U.S. Expl. Exped. 



Bot. 17: 492. 1874. Cascade Mountains, Oreg. 

 Melica fugax madophylla Piper, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 11: 128. 1906. 



Falcon Valley, Wash., Suksdorf 61. 

 Melica macbridei Rowland, in Nels., Bot. Gaz. 54: 404. 1912. Silver City, 



Idaho, Macbride 948. 

 Melica fugax var. inexpansa Suksdorf, Werdenda I 2 : 1. 1923. Falcon Valley, 



Wash., Suksdorf 6989. 

 (5) Melica geyeri Munro; Boland., Calif. Acad. Sci. Proc. 4: 103. 1870. [Ukiah], 



Calif., Bolander 7, the specimen examined by Munro (in U.S. Nat. Herb.). 



The same collection was later distributed as 6119. 



Glyceria bulbosa BuckL, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1862: 95. 1863. Colum- 

 bia woods, Nuttall. 

 Bromus muticus Nutt.; A. Gray, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1862: 335. 1863, 



as synonym of Glyceria bulbosa Buckl. 

 Melica poaeoides var. bromoides Boland., Calif. Acad. Sci. Proc. 4: 103. 1870, 



as synonym of M. geyeri Munro. Bolander 40 and 6119. 

 Melica bromoides Boland.; A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Sci. Proc. 8: 409. 1872. 



Based on M. poaeoides var. bromoides Boland. [Bolander 6119]. 

 Melica poaeoides Boland.; Scribn., Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1885: 47. 1885, 



as synonym of " M. bromoides Gray." 

 Melica bromoides var. howellii Scribn., Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1885: 47. 



1885. Near Waldo, Oreg., Howell 335 in 1884. 

 Melica pammeli Scribn., Davenport Acad. Sci. Proc. 7: 240. 1899. Geranium 



Park, Wyo., Pammel 159. 

 Bromelica geyeri Farwell, Rhodora 21: 78. 1919. Based on Melica geyeri 



Munro. 

 Bromelica geyeri var. howellii Farwell, Rhodora 21: 78. 1919. Based on 



Melica bromoides var. howellii Scribn. 

 (3) Melica harfordii Boland., Calif. Acad. Sci. Proc. 4: 102. 1870. Santa 



Cruz, Bolander 53 [type]; Redwood, Bolander 6464; Yosemite Valley, and 



Bear Valley, both Bolander. 

 Melica harfordii var. minor Vasey, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 48. 1888. 



Siskiyou Mountains, Oreg., Howell in 1887. 

 Melica harfordii tenuior Piper, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 11: 127. 1906. 



Based on M. harfordii var. minor Vasey. 

 Bromelica harfordii Farwell, Rhodora 21: 78. 1919. Based on Melica 



harfordii Boland. 

 Bromelica harfordii var. minor Farwell, Rhodora 21: 78. 1919. Based on 



Melica harfordii var. minor Vasey. 

 Melica harfordii var. tennis Suksdorf, Werdenda 1: 17. 1927. Bingen, Wash., 



Suksdorf 12018. 

 Melica harfordii var. viridifolia Suksdorf, Werdenda 1: 17. 1927. Bingen, 



Wash., Suksdorf 11686, 11777. 

 (15) Melica imperfecta Trin., Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. Sci. Nat. 2*: 59. 



1836. California. 



Melioa colpodioides Nees, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1: 283. 1838. California, Douglas. 

 Melica panicoides Nutt., Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. II. 1: 188. 1848. Santa 



Barbara, Calif., Gambel. 

 Melica poaeoides Nutt., Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. II. 1: 188. 1848. Santa 



Catalina Island, Calif., Gambel. [The type at the British Museum is 



labeled San Diego.] 

 Melica imperfecta var. flexuosa Boland., Calif. Acad. Sci. Proc. 4: 101. 1870. 



"Mariposa to Clark's" [Yosemite Valley region] Calif., Bolander in 1866. 

 Melica imperfecta var. refracta Thurb., in S. Wats., Bot. Calif. 2: 303. 1880. 



San Bernardino, Calif., Lemmon. 

 Melica imperfecta var. minor Scribn., Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1885: 42. 



1885. San Bernardino Mountains, Parish Brothers 856. 

 Melica parishii Vasey; Beal, Grasses N.Amer. 2: 500. 1896. Southern 



California, Parish 1997. 

 Melica imperfecta var. pubens Scribn., U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Agrost. Circ. 30: 8. 



1901. Santa Cruz Island, Calif., Brandegee 64. 



The name is erroneously given as Melica imperforata Nees, in Hook, and Arn., 

 Bot. Beechey Voy. 403. 1840. This is the species described and figured by 

 Vasey (U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Bot. Bull. 13 2 : pi. 84. 1893) as Poa thurberiana 

 Vasey, but the name is based on Panicularia thurberiana Kuntze. 



