2) a large population of perhaps 2,000 individuals near 

 Hebgen Lake in Gallatin County (Jan Nixon 1986 pers. 

 comm. to J. S. Shelly); C, lanceolate var. lanceol ate 

 was not present in this population; 



3) a population of undetermined size near State Highway 

 274 about 10-15 miles south of Anaconda (P. Lesica 

 1987 pers. comm. to J. S. Shelly). There are four 

 additional recent records from northwestern Wyoming, in 

 all of which _C, lanceol ata var. lanceol ate was present. 



Intensive field investigations of the status of Cj. lanceol ata vdr. 

 f 1 e v e in Montana will likely be implemented in spring - early summer, 

 1986 (J. S. Shelly, pers. comm.). 



J u nc u s hall i i is accorded rare status for Montana as a peripheral 

 species by Lesica et al . (1984), occurring in moist to dry 

 meadows at mid- to high elevations in the mountains in Madison 

 end Powell Counties end reported for Silver Eow County. The 

 record for Silver Bow County is that of OEA Research (1981) for 

 the Beel Project permit area; the taxon averaged well under one 

 percent cover on one transect (#10) in the Idaho fescue/bearded 

 wheatgrass habitat type end on one transect (#3) in the rough 

 fescue/Idaho fescue habitat type. It averaged 1.5 percent cover 

 on one transect (?S) in the shrubby cinquefcil/rough fescue- 

 habitat type. 



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