oQo GRAMINE^E. Gijmnostichum. 



no trace of glume teing 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 stitf 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. 



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

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

 an Elimus, resembling greatly some of the tall forms of E. condcnsatus, and entirely without the 

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

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

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



