Stvpa.' GRAMINE.E. 287 



^_ ^ Panicle narrow, with more or less erect usuallij crowded rays. 

 ■H- Lower yalet less than 3 lines long. 



7. S. Kingii, Bulaiul. 1. c Culms tuftetl, G to 20 inches liigh, covered helow 

 ■by the remains of numerous sheaths, slender, smooth, with but two nodes near the 

 base : radical leaves half as long as or equalling tlie culm, setaceously involute, 

 minutely scabrous ; culm leaves 2, the upper short ; ligule a line long, acute, often 

 cleft : panicle narrow, 1 to 2 inches long, the sliort erect rays scabrous ; lower rays 

 ternate, 2-flowered, the upper in pairs or solitary, 1-tlowered : spikelets 2 lines long : 

 glumes' obtuse, eroded and sometimes mucronate, hyaline with a tinge of purple at 

 base, the midnerve extremely delicate, and the others not manifest ; the lower glume 

 one-fourth shorter, equalling the floret : callus short, whitiali ; lower palet purplisli, 

 sparsely pubescent, with a few longer hairs at tip which is veiy miimtely 2-toothed ; 

 awn 6 lines long, bent below the middle, scabrous and very persistent ; upper palet 

 equalling the lower and hairy at apex : anthers bearded at tip. 



Mount Dana, at 7,000 to 12,000 feet altitude, Bolander. This exceedingly neat and delicate 

 species is named in honor of Mr. Clarence King. 



8. S. Sibirica, Lam. Culms 1| to 3 feet high, clothed at base by the remains 

 of old sheaths : leaves very narrow and involute, smooth or slightly roughened, the 

 radical about half equalling the culm ; ligule short ; sheaths shorter than the inter- 

 nodes, the upper somewhat inflated, its blade about half as long as the panicle, pale 

 green throughout : panicle 6 to 12 inches long, erect, narrow ; rays distant, the lower 

 in threes or fives, the upper in pairs, branching and few-flowered : spikelets -4 lines 

 long : glumes nearly ecpial, acuminate in a slender point, 3-nerved, minutely sca- 

 brous and one-fourth longer than the fusiform short-callused floret : lower palet about 

 21- lines long, minutely 2-toothed at the apex, brownish at maturity, with long ratlier 

 coarse hairs° upper palet nearly equal ; awn 6 to 9 lines long, flexuosely geniculate 

 near the middle, below which it is strongly pubescent (almost plumose), scabrous 

 above : anthers conspicuously bearded. — 111. i. 158 ; Trin. & Eupr. Stipaceie, 59. 

 S. Bloomeri, Boland. in Proc. Calif. Acad. iv. 168. 



Mono Lake and near Sonora Pass, Bolander, u. 6116 ; "rare." Siberia, etc. 

 -i-i- ++ Lower palet 3 to 5 lines long. 



9. S. Stillmani, Boland. Culms tufted, stout, 3 to 5 feet high, geniculate below, 

 smooth except the pubescent nodes: radical leaves 12 to 18 inches long, those of 

 the culm (four or five) much shorter, all glaucous, involute at least at the long atten- 

 uate apex, the lower 3 to 4 lines wide at base, mostly smooth below, scabrous above 

 and on the margins ; ligule minute ; sheaths loose, shorter than the internodes, 

 striate, smooth, slightly bearded at the throat : panicle 5 to 10 inches long, narrow 

 and spike-like, interrupted below, nearly white and lustrous, the axis pubcrulent 

 with an inc<implete pilose ring at the nodes ; rays crowded and fiisciculate, more or 

 less united below, 1 -few-flowered : glumes nearly equal, about 9 lines long, acumi- 

 nately bristle-pointed, membranaceous-hyaline, the lower 3-, the upper more or less 

 5-nerved at base : floret 5 lines long with a short one-sided white-hairy callus ; lower 

 palet herbaceo-chartaceous, distinctly 3-nerved, sparsely pnbesc«M)t throughout, the 

 divisions of the 2-cleft tip nearly a line long ; upper palet similar ; awn inserted be- 

 low the tip of the palet, 12 to 15 lines long, tortuous, slightly bent above the mid- 

 dle, scabrous : stamens 3; anthers long, mucronulate. — Proc. Calif. Acad. iv. 168. 



Blue Canon, Sieri-a Nevada, Bolander. The stout culms, as large as a goose(iuill, arc froni a 

 large tortuous almost woody rhizome, which is hairy, as are the rootlets proceeduig from it. 1 lie 

 large and lustrous panicles are strikingly handsome. 



10. S. coronata. Culm 4 to 6 feet high, 3 or 4 lines thick at base, where it is 

 clothed with tlie remains of old sheaths : lower ctdm leaves about 3 feet long, 4 to 6 

 lines wide at base, gradually attenuate to a long involute point, tlie uppermost about 

 G inches long, almost filiform and rigid, all slightly scabrous on both surfaces and 



