PIPER FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. Ill 



Range: Washington and Idaho to California. 



Specimens examined: Spokane, Wilkes Expedition; Pullman, Piper 1743; Whitman 

 County, Lake & Hull, July?, 1892; Sandberg cfe Leiberg 108; West Klickitat County , Suks-' 

 dorf 2117. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



3. Alopecurus saccatus Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 6: 290. 1881. 

 Type locality: "Eastern Oregon." Collected by Howell. 

 Range: Eastern Washington and eastern Oregon. 



Specimens examined: Lyle, Leckenby, May 21, 1899; near Spangle, Piper, 3553. 

 Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



PHLEUM. 



Spike cylindric ; awns of glumes short 1 . P. pratense. 



Spike ovate-oblong; awn as long as body of glume 2. P. alpinum. 



1. Phleiim pratense L. Sp. PI. 1: 59. 1753. Timothy. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Europae versuris et pratis." 



Specimens examined. Seattle, Piper 789; Colville, Lyall in 1860; Pullman, Hardwick 

 July, 1895. 



2. Phleum alpinum L. Sp. PI. 1: 59. 1753. Mountain timothy. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Alpibus." 



Range: Alaska to Labrador, southward to New Hampshire, Arizona, and California. 

 Europe. Patagonia. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Elmer, 1901; Mount R^nier, Piper 1953; 

 Allen, July 20, 1892; Mpunt Stuart, Sandberg cfe Leiberg 814 and August, 1893; Wenache 

 Mountains, Elmer 441; Cascade Mountains above Lake Chelan, Lake & Hull 115; Cascade 

 Mountains to Fort Colville, LyaU in 1860; Cascade Mountains, Vasey 393. 



Zonal distribution: Arctic and Hudsonian. 



POLYPOGON. 



Glumes notched at apex, their awns 2 to 3 times as long; panicle 



dense, cylindric •. 1 . P. monspeliensis. 



Glumes attenuate into awns of equal length; panicle lobed or inter- 

 rupted 2. P. littoralis. 



1. Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf. Fl. Atl. 1:67. 1800. 

 Alopecurus monspeliensis L. Sp. PI. 1:61. 17.53. 



Type locality: "Habitat monspelii." 



Range: British Columbia to Mexico. Europe. Naturalized in the Atlantic States. 



Specimens examined: Olympics, Elmer 1934; South Bend, Spillman, August 17, 1899; 

 Seattle, Piper 792; Tacoma, Flett 7; Parker, Dunn; North Yakima, Watt, August, 1895; 

 Alma, Elmer 532; Douglas County, Sandberg cfe Leiberg 280; Waitsburg, Homer 523; Illia, 

 W . R. Hull 90; Almota, Piper, June, 1894; Spokane, Sandberg, Heller, cfe MacDougal 920; 

 Steptoe, Vasey 56; Ellensburg, Vasey 494. 



Zonal distribution: Upper Sonoran and Transition. 



2. Polypogon littoralis (With.) Smith, Comp. Fl. Brit. ed. 2. 13. 1816. 

 Agrostis littoralis With. Bot. Arr. Brit. Veg. ed. 3. 2: 129. 1796. 



Type locality: "Wells, on the Norfolk coast," England. 

 Range: Vancouver Island to California and on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. 

 Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Elmer 1955; Tacoma, Flett 8. 

 Zonal distribution: Humid Transition. 



