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Culms 90-100 cm. high, with corms at the base. Slieaths often 

 scabrous, half as long as the intcnuxles; ligulo 3 uiiu. long; blades 

 scabrous, flat or iuvolute, 20-40 cm. long, 5-12 luni. wide. 

 I'anick" much cxserted, thin, pyramidal, 12-15 cm. long; rays in 

 twos or threes or single, the longest 6-7 cm. long, bearing 2-5 

 spikelets on the outer three llfths. Spikclets 4-5-flowered, l(;-2a 

 mm. long; empty glumes ovate, narrowed above, acute or obtuse, 

 iirst 4 mm. long, second T mm. long; floral glume 8-!» mm. long, 

 7-nerved, scabrid, linear-lanceolate, acute, with 2 teeth, the 3 nerves 

 extending to the apex, the middle one ending in a point; palea a 

 little shorter, ciliolate on the keels. 



Washington, Vasey ; California, Bohtndcr 40. 

 Washington, Oregon, California. 

 Var. Howellii Scribn. Proc. Thila. Aca<l. 47 (1K85). 

 This differs from the type in its more open and fewer-flowered 

 panicle; the floral glumes are also considerably longer, and entire 

 or but slightly notched at the tip, without any awn. It has a 

 decidedly festucoid look. 

 Oregon, Howell 335. 



20. M. Smithii (Porter) Vasey ined. Arena Smitliii T. C. 

 Porter, A. (iray Man. Ed. 4:640. 



A slender grass, 60-140 cm. high; culms with corms at the 

 base. Sheaths about the length of the internodes; ligiile acute, 

 thin, 4-5 mm. long; blades 5-6 in nunil)er, flat, thin, scabrous, 

 1.5-20 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide. I'aniclc open, thin, 15-30 

 cm. long; rays mostly single, 5-T cm. lojig, distant, at length 

 spreading, slightly curved, the lowest 8-12 cm. long, bearing 

 a few spikelets usually above the middle. Spikelets 2-5- 

 flowered, joint of rachilla hispid, 3-4 mm. long; empty glumes 

 scabrid, first 5 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved, second 

 6-7 mm. long, lance-elliptical, 5-nervcd; floral glume 8-10 mm. 

 long, linear-lanceolate, 2-toothed. 7-nerved. awn 4-6 mm. long; 

 ]ialea linear, 6-7 mm. long. Nearly allied to .1/. arisfata 

 'J'hurber. 



:Michigan. near Sault St. Marie, Grand Traverse (/?w/ 104), 

 Benzie, Kewenaw Co. {FarwvU), Otsego County, Lsle Koyale; 



