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linear, acute, 3-nerved, about 3 lines long: flowering glumes elliptical - 
lanceolate, about 3 lines long, the awn 14-2 lineslong. Southern Oregon. 
Var. Columbiana Beal |. c. 599. Stems 20-30 inches high, with 2 
nodes; sheaths smooth: leaves of sterile shoots 7-12 inches long, firm, 
glaucous: scabrous, nearly cylindrical: panicle thin, 2-7 inches long, its 
branches scabrous, the longer 2-3 inches long: spikelets 4-7 lines long, 
3-7-flowered, the first empty glume narrow about 2 lines long, the second 
linear, acute, 214-3 lines long: flowering glumes 3-314 lines long. About 
Pullman Washington. 
Var. Oregana Hack. Bea! |. c. 599. Stems slender, 2-3 feet high: 
leaves of sterile shoots 4-6 inches long, panicle thin, 2-4 inches long, its 
branches solitary ,the longest 1-2 inches long: spikelets 2-6-flowered ; second 
glume linear, subulate, 3 lines long: flowering glumes linear, 3 lines long, 
-palets a little longer than the glumes. Eastern Oregon. . 
F. amethystina L. Sp. 74. A tufted perennial: stems rather slen- 
der, 2-3 feet high, with 2-3 nodes: sheaths shorter, than the internodes: 
ligules a mere ciliolate ring: leaves of sterile shoots flaccid, conduplicate, 
5-15 inches long: those of the stem 2-3, the upper 3-5 inches long: panicle 
simple; secund, narrow or spreading, 4-8 inches long, the lower branches. 
usually in pairs, scabrous, the longer 4-5 inches long: spikelets linear- 
lanceolate or oval 3-7-flowered, about 344 lines long: first empty glumes 
lanceolate, 114 line long, the second linear-lanceolate, about 2 lines long: 
flowering glumes scarious, lanceolate-oblong,2-3 Jines long: involute, awn- 
less or with an awn 14-1 line long: palets linear, 2-toothed, scabrous on the 
keels. Oregon to California, also in Europe. | 
F. scabrella Torr. Hook. Fl. ii, 252, t. 233. An erect tufted peren- 
nial 2-4 feet high: sheaths smooth: ligules acute, 1-5 lines long: leaves 
of sterile shoots numerous, smooth or scabrous, involute, those of the 
stem usually 2, rigid, scabrous above, 3-5 inches long: panicle thin, 5-7 
inches long, its branches mostly in pairs, 3-5 inches long: spikelets 3-7- 
flowered, 4-7 lines long: empty glumes chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, the 
first 1-nerved, 2-3 lines long, the second 3-nerved 2-3%¢ lines long: flower- 
ing glumes oblong, scabrous, 5-nerved, 3-4 lines long, sometimes with a 
‘stout awn about 44 line long. Eastern Washington to Alaska and Iowa.. 
F. rubra L. Sp. 74. A densely tufted perennial: stems ascending, 
geniculate at base, 14%4-21¢ feet high, from running rootstocks, sheaths 
usually shorter than the internodes, ligules very short, truncate: basal leaves 
involute-filiform: 8-6 inches long, those of the stem erect, flat or involute: 
panicle 2-5 inches long, sometimes red, open in flower, contracted in fruit: 
spikelets 3-10-flowered, 4-6 lines long: empty glumes acute, the first 1-nerved, 
shorter than the 3-nerved second one: flowering glumes about 3 lines long: ob- 
scurely 5-nerved, sometimes scabrous, bearing awns of less than their own 
length. Oregon to Alaska and Labrador. 
Var. fallax Hack. Fest. Eu. 142. Densely cespitose, glaucous, 
strongly tinged with purple. 20-30 inches high: panicle’ 3-4 inches long: spike- 
lets elliptical-lanceolate, 2-7-flowered: flowering glumes 2-3 lines long, rather 
abruptly pointed with a very short awn. Oregon and Washington to the 
Rocky Mountains. 
Var. trichophylla Hack. 1. c. 141. Stems slender, about 30 inches 
high, ascending from creeping rootstocks: lower sheaths shredded: panicle 
linear-oblong 38-5 inches long, flowering glumes linear-lanceolate, glabrous , 
bearing a short awn. Oregon and Euro; e. 
Var. pubescens Vasey, Beal |. c. 607. Stems loosely tufted, 2-3 
