FESTICKiE. 507 



flexuose, single or in pairs, sometimes in tlirees, the longest ;}-4 

 cm. long, beiiring 2—4 spikelets. Spikt'lots 3-8-ll(>\vc'red, joint of 

 racliillii 1.5 mm. long; empty glumes ovate, ol)tuse, or acute witli 

 transverse nerves near tlie middle, first glume 3-nerved, 4-5 mm. 

 long, second r)-nerved, 5-G mm. long; floral glume 7-8 mm. long, 

 abruptly tapering, oval, the apex with 2 very short teeth or a 

 notch, 7-9-nerved, with cross nerves; ])alea elliptical, 5 mm. 

 long. Professor Scribner says : "This grass has l)een referred to 

 Oeyer's M. hulhosa by authors, but aside from its affecting higher 

 elevations, it is readily distinguished from that s})ecies by its usu- 

 ally taller and more slender. culms, by its more open and nodding 

 panicle, by the more slender and flexuose pedicels, by its shorter 

 empty glumes, and by its broader flowering glumes, which taper 

 abruptly to a rounded and usually two-lobed summit." 



Montana, Anderson, Wil/idinsj Oregon, Cuskk 851. 



Montana, Oregon, and California. 



16. M. Californica Scribn. Proc Phila. Acad. 4(j (1885). M. 

 po(Poi(les Tow. Pac. 1{. Kei). 4: 15? (185T), not Xutt. J/, biilbosa 

 Thurb. S. Wats. liot. Calif. 2:304 (1880), not Ceyer (1850). 



Culms slender, 30-80 cm. high, with corms and \voolly-i>ubes- 

 cent roots. Leaves 4-5 in number, sheaths shorter than tho inter- 

 nodes, scabrous, ligule 3 mm. long, brown and pubes- 

 cent below; l)lades iirm, scabrous, involute. 8-12 

 cm. long, 2-3 nun. wide. I'aniele 10-15 cm. long', 

 spikelike, interrupted ])elow. rays mostly in jtairs, 

 the longest 3-4 cm. long. Spikelets scabrid. 2-3- 

 llowered on erect stout pedicels, joint of rachilla 2 

 mm. long, first empty glume ovate, ;'.-5-nerved, al)Out 

 G mm. long, second elliptical. 5-l-nervod, al)out 7 

 mm. long; floral glume G-7 nun. long, oval, ai)expjj^ loi— ¥<■ 



obtuse or notched, niinutelv scabrous, 7-l)-nerve(l ; ''"''" Cuiifor- 

 . "^ nica. Spikfk't. 



j)alea elliptical, about 5 mm. long, J he plant seen (Sciihuer.) 

 was marked J/, bidbosa Oeyer, and from ^1, K. Jones, collected at 

 Kelsey, California. 



Utah, Watson 1303; Wyoming, Pftrri/ 205; Idaho, W'afsoii 

 -155; Oregon, f'lisick S\i^; California, Jones. 



