328 GIIAMINE^E. Gymnostichum. 



no trace of glume being present, appressed, at least when young : lower palet 6 

 lines long, broadly lanceolate, 5-nerved above, the nerves, especially the marginal 

 ones, ciliate-hispid with short stiff rather distant white hairs ; awn stout, rough, 

 straight and one-half longer than the palet ; upper palet equalling the lower, ciliate 

 above. Catalogue, 35, without description. 



lied Woods, near San Francisco (Bolander) ; Saucelito, Kellogg & Harford, n. 1107. Bolander's 

 specimens are very young, being just in flower. In this state they have precisely the aspect of 

 an Elymus, resembling greatly some of the tall forms of E. condensatus, and entirely without the 

 " bottle-brush " appearance so striking and characteristic in the eastern G. Hystrix. The absence 

 of glumes is much more complete than in that species, which often has rudimentary ones. In 

 this the scales to the ovary are very large and beautifully fringed. 



