128 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Melica acuminata Boland. Proo. Cal. Acad. 4: 104. 1870. 



Festuca cepacea Philippi, Linnaea 33: 297. 1864-65. 



Melica cepacea Scribner, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. (ire. 30: 8. 1901. 



Type locality: Unalaska. 



R.\nge: Northern California to Wyoming and Alaska. 



Speclmexs examined: Clallam County, E/wicr 1937; Seattle, Piper 839, 864: Coupeville 

 Gardner 339; Easton, Henderson 2216: upper Nisqually Valley, Allen 47: Blue Mountains, 

 Piper 25m: Lake d: Hull 83; Homer 512; Stehek'm, Griffiths J: Cotton '^2i). 



2ioNAL distribition: Transition to Arctic. 



6. Melica bella Piper, V. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Circ. 27: 10. lEOO. 



Melica bulbosa Geyer; Hook. Journ. Bot. & Kew Misc. 8: 19. 18.'i6, nom. nud.,not Melica 

 bulbosa Geyer: Tliurh. in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 304. 1880. 



Type locality: "Rocky ravine, Upper Platte." Collected by Geyer. 



Range: Washington to Wyoming and Oregon. 



Specimens examined: Wenache Mountains, Brandegee 1182; Whited, May 31, 1899; 

 Mount Stu&rt, Sandberg d' Leiherg 580: Upper Atanum ^iiw.r, Henderson 2214: Peshastin, 

 Sandberg d' L«i6er^, July, 185)3: Wenache, C i?. V'asey, July, 1889; EUensburg, Pi/)cr2616; 

 Chelan, Griffiths cfc Cotton 167: Stehekin, Griffiths <fc Cotton 239. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



7. Melica bella intonsa, subsp. nov. 



Leaves and culms covered with a dense short reflexed pubescence. 



Range: Washington to Nevada. 



Specimens examined: Wenas, Griffiths tfe Cotton 103, June, 1S02 (type). 



7a. Melica fugax madophylla, subsp. nov. 



Leaves and stems glabrous or nearly so. 



Range: Washington to California. 



Specimens examined: Falcon Valley, Sukscbrf 61 (type), 78, 16, 5; without locality 

 Wilkes Expedition; Cascade Mountains, Vasey 9, 93. 



Melica bromoides Gray is included in Suksdorf' s List, but there is no evidence that the 

 species occurs in Washington. 



PLEUROPOGON. 



1. Pleuropogon refractum (A. Gray) Vasey, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. IS^: 

 pi. 69. 1893. 



Lophochlaena refracta A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 409. 1872. 



Type locality: Oregon. Collected by Hall. 



Range: Oregon and Washington west of the Cascades. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Elmer 1931; Piper; Seattle, Piper 886; 

 Nisqually Valley, Allen 40; Stevens Pass, Sandberg cfe Leiberg 734; White River, Vasey 360. 



Zonal distribution: Humid Transition to Canadian. 



DACTYLIS. 



1. Dactylis glomerata L. Sp. PI. 1: 71. 1753. Obchard grass. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae cultis ruderatis." 

 Specimens examined: Waitsburg, Horner 224. 



POA. Bluegrass. 



Annual; lemma without cobwebby hairs at base 1. P. annua. 



Perennial. 



Plants with creeping rootstocks. 



Stem flattened, 2-edged ; panicles small 2. P. compressa. 



Stem cylindric. 



Lemma webbed, that is, with a tuft of long hairs at the 

 base. 



