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In M'liich the awns were 5-7 nun. long were called vur. aristuhtdt 

 by 'J'orrey, but llorets uro ol'teu long-uwned, wliilo otliers on tlie 

 same })lant are short-awned. 



Massachusetts, Dr. Citoh'ii; Micliigan, Dr. Coule//, />/■. C/tn'/r, 

 Wlii'eh')', Jk'iil lo'-]; Illinois, 7)V7// l;}',': Minnesota, //iih:iii;/rr Ki; 

 Iowa, Jfi/rJirockj Colorado, Casnithj; Montana, Andcrxon t**^; 

 Texas, JiercnJion I'^Ml, S. Jcniiei/, Jones '37 o'^, yvoUfn; Washing- 

 ton, Luke; Oregon, Iloii'eJl. 



Dry barren land, Kew England and Canada to Florida and the 

 Paeillc. 



4. V. uiiilDA (L.) Kunth. IJev. Gram. 1:12!) (18'!!i). Pua 

 rigiila L. Cent. Tl. IJar. 1:5 (irSo). 



Culms slender, geniculate or erect, 10-40 cm. higli. Sheaths 

 smooth, shorter than the internodes; ligule about 3 mm. long; 

 blades 3-4 in number, sinooth, 5-1.") cm. long, about 3 mm. wide. 

 Panicle oblong, 4-9 cm. long, rays single, large, sti IT, tri(inetrous, 

 diverging, brancliiug, the longest \.'i-Z cm. long. Spikeli'ts linear- 

 lanceolate, 5-l:-*-l1o\vered, 7-10 mm. long, joint of rachilla 1 mm. 

 long; empty glumes ovate, oblong, acute or ol)tuse, first 1.5 mm. 

 long, second 1.5-"2 mm. long; Ihn'al glume scabrid, ovate-elliptical. 

 2.5-".\7 mm. long; i)alea nearly as long aa its glume, short-eiliate 

 on the keels, 2-toothed. 

 * Introduced on ballast from luirope. 



5. F. Richardsonii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:250, /. 230 (1840). 

 A tufted brown geniculate perennial, 15-20 cm. high. Blades 



of the sterile shoots flaccitl, 3-8 cm. long; ligulo very short; blades 

 of the culm flat, the upper 10-15 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Panicle 

 dense, more or less interrupted, 3-4 cm. long; sjiikelets G-12 in 

 number, approxinuite, ovate on short pedicels, densely pilose. 

 Spikelets 3-4-flowered, G-7 mm. long; empty glumes oblong-ovate, 

 unecpud, obtuse; floral glume broadly ovate, yellowish puride, 5-G 

 mm. long, acuminate or with a short awn; palea hirsute on the 

 keels. 



Ar(^tio coast, Alaska. 



6. F. confinis Vasey, liull. Torr. Club, 11:120 (1884). 



A tufted stout rigid, light-green perenniMl, 40-120 cm. high. 



