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Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, £'Zmer 1947; Cascade Mountains, 49°, Lyall 

 in 1860; Mount Rainier, Piper 2620, 1951; Mount Adams, Howell 423; Flett 1414; Yakima 

 County, Henderson 2261, 2262; Loomis, Elmer 556; Klickitat River, Flett 1368; Blue 

 Mountains, Piper, July, 1896; without locality, Sandberg <& Leiberg 687. 



Zonal distribution: Arctic. 



2a. Trisetum spicatum molle (Michx.). 

 Avena mollis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 72. 1803. 

 Trisetum subspicaium molle Gray, Man. ed. 2. 572. 1856. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Canada." 

 Range: Alaska to New England and Oregon. 



Specimens examined: hoomis, Elmer 6i3S; Cascade Mountains, Fa«cy 386. 

 Zonal distribution: Arctic. 



3. Trisetum canescens Buckl. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1862: 100. 1862. 



Type locality: "Oregon, Columbia Plains." Collected by Nuttall. 



Range: British Columbia to Idaho and California. 



Specimens examined: Clallam County, Elmer 1944, 1945; Seattle, Piper, June, 1891; 

 Smith 1097; Olympia, Henderson, June, 1892; Montesano, Heller 3931; upper Nisqually 

 Y&Wey, Allen 48; Mount Stuart, ^^mer 1143; Kamiak Butte, Piper, July 20, 1899; Palouse, 

 F. D. Cloud, June, 1895; Blue Mountains, Horner 502, 518; Cascade Mountains, Vasey 483; 

 Stehekin, Griffiths cfe Cotton 238. 



Zonal distribution: Transition. 



5. Trisetum cemuum Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 1: 61. 1830 (January). 



Avena nuikaensis Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 254. 1830. 



Trisetum sandbergii Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 378. 1896. 



Trisetum nutkaense Scribner & Merrill, Univ. Cal. Bot. Publ. 1 : 63. 1902. 



Type locality: "Ex Ins. Sitka." 



Range: Alaska to California and Idaho. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Elmer 1946; Mount Rainier, Smith 979; 

 Longmire Springs, Smith, August, 1890; upper Nisqually Valley, Allen 42; Seattle, Piper, 

 Smith 846; Wenache Region, Brandegee 1177; Pullman, Piper, July 13, 1899; Klickitat 

 River, Flett 1368, 1412; Blue Mountains, Lake cfc Hull 64; Mount Stuart, Sandberg <& 

 Leiberg 823. 



Zonal distribution: Humid Transition. 



PHRAGMITES, 



1. Phragmites phragmites (L.) Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 379. 1880-83. Reed. 



Arundo phragmites L. Sp. PI. 1 : 81. 1753. 



Phragmites communis Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134. 1820. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae lacubus, fluviis." 



Range: British Columbia to Quebec south to Georgia and California, Europe, Asia. 



Specimens examined: Ophir, Elmer 519; Columbia River, Scouler; Crab Creek, Douglas 

 County, Lake cfe Hull 113; between Yakima and Ellensburg, Piper. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



EATONIA. 



Panicle dense, erect; upper glume obova te I. E. obtusata. 



Panicle lax, often drooping; upper glume oblanceolate 2. E. pennsylvanica. 



1. Eatonia obtusata (Michx.) Gray, Man. ed. 2. 558. 1856. 

 Aira obtusata Michx. Fl. 1: 62. 1803. 



Type locality: "llab. in aridis, a Carolina ad Floridam." 

 Range: Washington to Ontario and Massachusetts, southward to Arizona and Florida. . 



