224 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
These two species are strikingly different in general appearance 
and habit, although the flowers are quiet similar. 
Deyeuxia Cusicki. Culms 3 to 4 ft. high, erect from a 
creeping rhizoma, smooth, nodes about three, distant: radical 
tufts numerous, with flexible curving leaves } as long us the 
culm: culm Jeaves 3 to 4, light green, 9 to 12 inches long, 3 to 
4 lines wide, slightly scabrous, the upper one nearly equalling the 
culm ; sheaths smooth, 4 to 5 inches long, the upper one 7 or 8 
inches ; ligule conspicuous, 2 to 4 lines long, membranaceous: 
panicle 6 inches long, erect, rather close, } to 1} inches wide, the 
branches whorled, numerous, mostly short and flowering to the 
e, the longer ones 1 to 1} inches, densely flowered, the lower 
whorls about 1 inch distant: spikelets closely approximated, very 
short pedicelled: outer glumes about 2 lines long, acute or acu- 
minate, smooth, rather thin; the lower one 1-nerved; the upper 
3-nerved and a little shorter: flowerin glumes nearly as long 
as the outer ones, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, thin- 
nish, 5-nerved, bifid at the apex; awn erect, inserted a little be- 
low the middle, slightly exceeding its glume: palet nearly equal- 
ling the glume, membranaceous: hairs scanty, $ to } as long as 
the flower, 
Found by Mr. W. C Cusiek in the Eagle Mountains, Eastert 
Oregon, at an altitude of 5 to 6,000 ft., growing in the shade of 
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palet as long as its glume, narrow, ciliate above: villous hairs 
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the base half as long as the flower : the rhachilla also villous. 
A slender, graceful species found by Mr. C. R. Oreutt on the 
mesas about San Diego, California. 
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