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places near Portiand Oregon. 
F. Myorus L. Sp. 74. A soft rather pale green annual: stems slender,, 
smooth, erect, or geniculate at base, 1-31¢ feet high,: sheaths smooth, 
longer than the internodes: ligules very short: leaves 3-5, erect, slender 
3-6 inches long: panicle narrow, more or less secund, 2-15 inches long 
its scabrous triquetrous branches in twos and threes below, appressed, 
the longest racemose, 1-6 inches long: spikelets on stout pedicels, linear, 
5-8-flowered 5-6 lines long; the first glume 1 line long or less; the second 
involute, lanceolate 2-3 lines long: flowering glumes scabrous, involute, 
‘acuminate, 2-3 lines long, exclusive of the awns which are 4-10 lines long: 
palets lanceolate, scabrous on the keels, bearing 2 short awns: stamens one. 
Common in fields; naturalized from Europe. 
F. octoflora Walt. Fl. Car. 71. F. tenella Willd. An erect slender 
tufted annual or biennial: stems sparingly branched 1-2 feet high: sheaths 
shorter than the internodes, sometimes pubescent: ligules about % line 
long: leaves erect, slender, 1-4 inches long, panicle simple, erect,2-5 inches 
long, narrow, or spreading at the base; its branches in pairs or solitary, 
the longest 1-3 inches long: spikelets flat, oval 2-6 lines long, 7-13-flower- 
ed: empty glumes involute so as to appear subulate, the first 114 lines 
long, the second about 2 lines long: flowering glumes inyvolute, acuminate, 
scabrous, 144-2 lines long, with an awn 14-3 lines long: palet a little shor- 
ter than the glumes: stamens 2. On dry barren ground, Oregon to Cali- 
fornia and the New England States. 
F. confinis Vasey Bull. Torr. Bot. Club xi, 126. A tufted stout light 
green perennial: stems erect, 2-4 feet high: sheaths loose, shorter than 
the internodes: ligules truncate, 14-3 lines long: leaves of sterile shoots 
half as long as the stem, with long slender points, those of the stem 2-3, 
5-8 inches long, 2-3 lines wide, flat or involute, smooth or’scabrous: pani- 
cle narrow, 4-6 inches long, its branches in twos or threes, erect, the longer 
1-2 inches long: spikelets oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 3-9 lines long, 2-3 
flowered: empty Eph pipe chartaceous, the first ovate, 114-3 lines long, 1- 
nerved the second linear-lanceolate, 3-34¢ lines long, 3-nerved: flowering 
glumes 244-3 lines long, lanceolate, scabrous, rather firm, acute or acumi- 
nate, nearly awnless: palets elliptical, scabrous, ciliate on the keels. South- 
‘eastern Oregon to Utah and Wyoming. 
F. denticulata Beal Grasses N. Am. ii, 589. F. ambigua Vasey, 
not Le Gall. A rather stout erect perennial: stems erect, 2144-4 feet high: 
sheaths scabrous, longer than the internodes: ligules very short: leaves of 
sterile shoots rather rigid, 7-10 inches long, those of the stem usually 4, 
flat or becoming involute, with long attenuate points: panicle 7-10 inches 
long, its branches flexuous, mostly in pairs, the longest 3-5 inches long: 
spikelets purplish, 3-4-flowered: empty glumes narrow, the first about 1 
line long, the second 2 lines long, 3-nerved: flowering glumes 3-4 lines 
long, obscurely 5-nerved, scabrous, acuminate, bearing an awn 4-8 lines 
long: palets 2-toothed. Oregon. . 
F. Californica Vasey Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. i, 277. Stems erect, 
rather stout, 2-5 feet high, from a perennial root: leaves of sterile shoots 
numerous, scabrous, involute, 4-4 as long as the stem, about 2 lines wide, 
of the stem usually 2: sheaths scabrous, shorter than the internodes hairy 
at the throat: ligulesa ciliate fringe: panicle open, pyramidal, 4-7 inches 
long, the lower branches slender, mostly in distant pairs, the longest 2-5 
inches long: spikelets 4—6-flowered 6-8 lines long, empty glumes ovate- 
lanceolate; the first 3 lines long, the second 3% lines long: flowering glumes 
linear-lanceolate, 4-5 lines long, bearing a short awn, scabrous: palets scab- 
rous, linear, 2-toothed. Edge of woods and open places, western Oregon. 
__F, Howellii Hack. F. viridula Vasey. A densely tufted perennial: 
sheaths shorter than the internodes: ligules less than 1 line long: leaves of 
