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BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



toothed, many-nerved, the nerves extending into the teeth; lemmas 

 firm, prominently 13 to 15 nerved, the broad summit with 5 long 



FIG. 37. Blepharidachne kingii. Plant, X 1 ; spikelet and perfect floret, the latter 

 showing the rudiment behind the palea, X 5. 



teeth or with numerous short teeth ; palea broad, 2-nerved, as long as 



the lemma. 



Low cespitose annuals, with short blades and terminal spikelike 



racemes, the spikelets rel- 

 atively large, appressed, 

 the upper aggregate, the 

 lower more or less remote. 

 Species two ; California 

 and Lower California. 



Type species: Orcuttia call- 

 f arnica Vasey. 



Orcuttia Vasey, Bull. Tor- 

 rey Club 13 : 219, pi. 16. 1886. 

 The one species described was 

 collected by C. R. Orcutt at 

 San Quentin Bay, Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



Our species, both in 

 California, are Orcuttia 

 greenei Vasey, from Chico, 

 of which only the type 

 collection is known, and 

 0. calif omica (fig. 38), 

 has been collected 



no. 8 a-o ra , io cau/orntca. Plant, x i; .pikelet 



and floret, the latter without a joint of the at GrOOSe Valley, llielat- 

 rachilla, this not disarticulating, X 5. ter S p ec i es i s distinguished 



by having 5-toothed lemmas; 0. greenei has truncate lemmas, the 

 nerves extending into short points. 



