pulea lanceolate, pectiuate-ciliate, 7-9 mm. long. Grain condn- 



plicate. 



Micl.iKan, (Petoskey) Wlwdcr, (Charlevoix) Spalding; Wyom- 

 ing Biifuni c ;}4; Montana, Amlerson VZ, 13, WilUams ; Vtuh, 

 jr^es •■Vanconver Island, J/aco..« ; Washington, Lake, Smnlhcrg 

 450 ; Oregon, Ihwell Joi- U. S. Dept. Agricnl. 743 ; California, 

 Jones 2487, 3V08 ; Arizona, Pr/»r;/(^ Tracy, Tourney 747. 



Nortliei n ^liclngan, Kooky Mountains to Oregon. 



25 B. Kalmii A. Gray, Man. Ed. 1:G00 (1848). B. eiUafus 

 Mnhl. firani. 100 (1817), not L. B. pnryans Torr. Fl. ^^ Y. 2:408 



(1843), not L. 



An erect slender perennial, 00-90 cm. high, with droopmg 

 panicles. Sheaths mostly shorter than the internodcs; ligule about 

 5 mm. long ; blades 4-5, usually conspicuously hairy, flat or becom- 

 in- invoh;te in adry climate, 12-18 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide. Pani- 

 clls-lScm. long, ravs slender, mostly in twos and threes, the 

 longest 4-G cm. long, bearing 1-2 spikelets. Spikdcts oval, 

 drooping, 7-13-flowcred, the glumes densely silky all over, espe- 

 cially the floral glume, joint o\' rachilla pubescent, about 2 mm. 

 lono- first glume linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved, 5-G mm. long, 

 secoiid oval, scarcely acute, 7-nerved, 7 mm. long; floral glume 

 round on the back, oval, obtuse, even near the apex when mature, 

 7-0-nervod, 9-U mm. long; awu 2-3 mm. long; palea linear, 

 strongly pectinate-ciliate, 7 mm. long. Di: Gray was folio ed m 

 some respects in the above description. 



Michigan, Beal d- Wheeler 147; ^linuesota, Art/arrj Montana, 



Anderson. . 



Dry grounds, New England, New York, Michigan, Montana, 



and northward. 



Var. occidentalis Vasey, ined. 



Blades narrower, not so hairy, joint of rachilla 3 mm. long, 

 first glume obtuse, 5-7.5 mm. long, second oval, almost obtuse, 

 6-8 5''mm. long; floral glume with shorter hairs. 



Montana, Canby di Scrihier 384, Anderson 11; Colorado, 



Cassidy. 



llocky Mountains. 



