BAMBUSEiE. 



657 



Apricul. 790; Now York, lien} 108; Michigan, Wheeler, Heal, 

 CVflrX; 734; WLsconsin, Ilohiuyvr. 



Moist woods. New Eiijijliiml to Miiiiiesotji and 

 Texas, 



'i. A. Californica (lioland.). (rf/miios/irhinn 

 Catifornicum lioland. Cat. .'Jo (1870); Tliurl). S. 

 Wats. Hot. Calif. 2:327 (18H0). Asprella Cult- 

 fontica Hentli. 



Culms 1-2 m. liigli. Slioaths, at least the 

 lower, clotlu'd with short stiff spreading hairs; 

 ligule very short ; blades Hat, ample, scahrous, 

 10-25 mm. wide. Spikes 15-25 cm. long, llexuose, 

 interrupted below, dense above. Spikelefs mostly 

 in pairs, 1-3-llowered, on very short eallus-like 

 pedicels, with little trace of empty glumes, ap- 

 pressed, at least when young ; floral glume 12 

 mm. long, broadly lanceolate, 5-0-nerved above, 

 the nerves, especially the marginal ones, ciliate- 

 hispid with short stiff rather distant white hairs; 

 awn stout, rough, straight, one-half longe.' than 

 its glume; palea equal to its glume, ciliate above. 

 When young much resembling Elyinus conilen* 

 safufi. 



California, Anderson for U. S. Nat. Herb. 



California. 



Trttji: III.— BAMBUSEiE. 



Fio. 135. — ^«- 

 perella II y a . 

 trix. Spike, 

 k't. (Scribner.) 



Spikelets 2-8- (rarely 1-) flowcre<], in i)anicles or racemes. 

 Empty glumes 2 to many, shorter than the nearest tloral glumes: 

 floral glume many-nerved, awnless or with a sliort straight terminal 

 awn ; palea 2- to many-nerved, rarely nerveless. Lodicules usually 3. 

 very large. Stamens 3 to many. Styles 2-3, often united at the 

 base. Grain free. Tall woody grasses, with broad blades usually 

 articulate at the sheath. 



151. (277). AruNDINARIA Michx. Fl. IJor. Am. 1:73 (1803). 

 Miegia Pers. Syn. 1:101 (1805). Ludoljia Willd. (Jes. Naturf. 



