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the branches 6-18 i long, puberulent or lower longer than the Internodes; Hgule 



hairy; Ivs linear or oblong- oblanceo- conspicuous, 2-3 lines long, triangular- 



late, narrowed to a petiole, 1-3 i long; acuminate, sometimes split; upper half 



peduncle with a pair of small spatulate of culm leafless: panicle 6-8 in. long, lax 



or subulate bracts below the fl, 1-fld, and open, branches mostly in twos, the 



retrocurved in fr, %-l i loitg: sep more lower ones 2-3 in. long, slender, smooth, 



or less hairy with subscarious margin; fl bearing to or below the middle, the 



cor p'ish, % i long, deeply 5-cleft. Eu. lower joints 1-2 in. distant: spikeleta 



SD! Baja! Cruz. small, outer glumes nearly 2 lines long, 



Breweria minima A. Gray. equal, linear-lanceolate, acute, ii-nerved, 



CONVOLVULUS SOLDANELLA Linn. smooth, purplish, one-third longer than 



{Stems prostrate, %-lV2 ft long; her- both fls: fl'ng glumes H-two-thirds line 



bage glabrous and succulent; Ivs thick, long, oblong, smooth, iaintly nerved, apex 



reniform, dep g, shining, 1-2 i broad, broad and 4-toothed the awn from near 



mostly broader than long, on stout pet- the base 4 times as long as its glume, 



ioles; cor short and rather broadly bent at the middle: palet as long as its 



funnelform, 1^-2 i broad, pinkish or glume, uairow, ciliate above: vilious hairs 



pale D; cap becoming i-celled. Sandy at the base half as long as the fl: the 



seashores. Baja north to Puget Sound, rhachilla also vilious." Vasey, bot gaz 



Eu. 10:224. S D mesas! Baja! 



Abrams, Fl LA 309. 



BROMU3 FORTERX. GLOSSARY. 

 Variety AS1 MIL-IS I>avy. 



Bromus Porteri lanatipes Shear, USD- /., ole:n AhHroviaHrmo ^ 



A agros b 23:37 (1900) in part. Mountain (See also Abbreviations-) 



Brcme. "Loosely tutted perennial; stems acaulescent, apparently stemless; the 

 E^SyMS^^^kSS Proper stem being very short or 

 legule 1-2 mm long, truncate, lacerate; subterranean. 



blades flat, 10-23 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, accesory, something additional. 

 SSsOT^^ in size or 



drooping but usually not heavy, the ra- length with age. a the calyx or 

 ehis branches and pedicels puberulent pedicel after flowering 



loTTo h n g U Ulen r der. h IprSSSro n r P r a efle S x b el; aceumbont, lying againV a thing. 

 bearing 1-3 or sometimes several sp*ke- 4 The cotyledons are accumbent when 



&%!%s%siiistf & " iey ". r ith thelr edges against 



row, sub-terete, 6-11-fl'd; empty glumes 



unequal, acute, 3-nerved, pubescent, the aeerose, needle-shaped. 



L!ume 6 dSly he pu l E r en 8 t 'SUSVSS =*" needle-haped. more s.ender 



extreme apex with appressed hairs, ob- than acerose. 



tuse, terminating in a short awn 4-n mm aculeate, armed with prir-kles. 



mSrittfT 1 UniV Cal PUb b0t 1:55- JaC Acuminate, aper-pointed. 



BROMUS 'TRINU Desv. acute, ending in a point. 



Robust, 6-12 dm . high, panicle much adherent. ?tiekins to, or growing fast 

 elongated. 2-4 dm long; branches mostly tn nnrt fv,pr hnrlv 

 6-12 at the lower whorls, weak and 



spreading; leaves broadly linear Ian- adnate, born adherent. 



ceolate, smooth or somewhat sparsely aestival, produced in summer. 



pilose-pubescent, as are the sheaths. *n=,H V j,tinn tho arrano-pmpnt nf rflrt 



Type from the Andes of southern Chili, aestivation, the arrangement 

 Chollas valley, San Diego (Orcutt 1064), m a flower-bud. 



Pasadena (O. D. Allen, in 1885), and San alate, winged. 



Nicolas Island (Balnche Trask 15), Call- alliaceous, with the odor of onions. 



Trisetum hirtum Trin Linnaea 10:300 alveolate, honeycomb-like- 



(1835). ament, the scaly spike of trees, like 

 229 rr < I fs54) m barbatum Stud Syn P1 Gram the alder and willow. 



Bromus barbatoides Beal Grass N A amphitropous, attached by the middle 

 2:614 (1896). and having 1 the micropyle at one 



. , H ,^ 



Bromus barbatorides sulcatus Beal amplexicaul, clasping Qhe stem by 



grass N A 2:615 (1896). the base. 



Trisetum barbatum major Vasey In anatropous, inverted, when the micro- 



^bHAM^foiUiciIJsIS^. P^e is at the same end as the 



"Apparently annual: culms about 2 ft hilum. 



Mgb, sender, smooth: Ivs filiform, not r. r ,,-.; n itoi Q./ario-pri 



rigid, the lower ones recurvirg. 3-4 in. an cipltai, - 



long; sheaths smooth, loose and open, the androgynous, having: both staminate 



