FKS'irCK.K. 62'6 



awn 4-8 mm. long; palea linoar, uiievoiily oiliato on tlio keels, nearly 

 as long as its glume. 



Washington, Suksdorf, HoiocU ; Oregon, Howell; .southern 

 Calitornia, Palmer, 5*iJ.'j ; Lower (."alifornia, Orcutt, 



Wasliiuglon to southern Calirornia. 



~»:5. B. Suksdorfti Vasey, Coult. Bot. Chi?.. 10:223 (1885). 



A stout ereet tufted smootli perennial, 60-80 cm. Iiigli. 

 Sheaths smooth, all exeept the lower, shorter than the internodes; 

 ligule thick, 1 mm. long; hlade, Ti-Gs ereet, ilat, smootli, rather 

 ahruptly jminted, 8-15 cm. long, 0-8 mm. wide. I'aniclo erect, 

 linear, 7-10 em. long; rays in twos and threes, the longest ;]~4 em. 

 long, bearing 2-3 spikelets. Spikelets linear-laneeolate, 3-5- 

 flowered, longest joint of rat'iiilla seabrous, 3 mm. long; em])ty 

 glumes smootli, scarcely acute, lirst lanceolate, 3-nerved, the lateral 

 nerves obscure, n mm. long, second oldong-lanceolate, 3-nerved, 12 

 mm. long; floral glume oblong-lanceolate, round on the back, softly 

 pubescent. r)-T-nerved, 12-11 mm. long, including tlie entire rather 

 obtuse apex, awn 1 mm. long, leaving its glume on the back a little 

 below thea})ex; palea linear, finely pectinate-ciliate, 3 mm. shorter 

 than its glume. 



Washington, Suksdorf ; Orvgon, IlouM'll. 



Wasliington and Oregon, 7000 feet above the sea. 



24. B. breviaristatus (Hook.) liuckl. I'roc Acad. Phila. 98 

 (18<;:)). CcnUuchloa breviariskda llook. Fl. l?or. Am. 2:353 

 (1840). 



A rather stoitt erect jierennial, 50-70 cm. high. Sheaths 

 about the length of the internodes, often })ubescent; ligule 1 mm. 

 long; blades 4 in number, flat, pubescent or scabrous, 12-20 cm. 

 long, 4-8 mm. wide. Panicle loose, mostly erect, 10-20 cm. long, 

 rays erect, in twos or tlirees or often single, the longest 5-7 cm. 

 long, not including the 1-3 spikelets. S[>ikelets lanceolate, com- 

 pressed, scabrid, G-8-flo\vered, joint of racdiilla scabrid, 3 mm. 

 long, first empty glume lanceolate, 3-nerved, 8-10 mm. long, second 

 oval-lanceolate, 5-7-nerved, 10-12 mm. long; fioral glume shortly 

 pubescent or scabrous, elliptical-lanceolate, obscurely 7-nerved, 

 11-13 mm. long, including 3 very short tips, awn 3-8 mm. long; 



