54 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JULY 
2-3°™ long, flattened, attenuate toward the base, 7—9-flowered ; 
glumes unequal by 1 ™", upper one 8 ™ long and 3-nerved, lower 
I-nerved, pubescent, both acuminate with a point 1™™ long; 
rachilla pubescent ; lower palet pubescent around the base and 
on the sides below the middle, the upper half becoming scabrous, 
12™" long, prominently 3-nerved and often with minor ones 
between, bearing a straight scabrous awn 5 ™™ long; upper palet 
shorter by 3™™, long-ciliate on its 2 nerves; stamens 3, their 
anthers nearly 3 ™ long; styles 2, from below the bristle covered 
callous cap. 
This magnificent Bromus was found by the writer only in a small shaded 
boggy district near Port Angeles, Clallam county, Washington, August, 1g00. 
[ have the identical species duplicated in a specimen from Yes Bay, Alaska, 
collected by Mr. 7: Howe//, in 1885, number 1722A. Professor C. L. Shear in 
his revision of the genus refers Howell’s specimen to B. sztchenszs Bong., 
from which it is at once separated by its pilose nodes, sheaths, and spikelets. 
It is most nearly related to B. facificus Shear, from which it differs in its 
much larger size, the smooth lower surface of its leaves, the lax panicle whose 
rays are not secund, the slender-pointed glumes, and much shorter upper 
palet. Type specimen (number 1957) is in the herbarium of Stanford Uni- 
versity. 
Panicularia multifolia, n. sp—A weak subaquatic perennial, 
with slender creeping rootstocks bearing fibrous roots at the 
nodes. Culms generally reclining, 9—12-jointed, rather soft in 
texture, 7-99" long. Blades all cauline, as many as there are 
joints, flat, glabrous on both sides, finely scabrous along the mar- 
gins, the largest ones 14™ long and 10o™ wide, gradually 
diminishing in size, all acuminately lanceolate; sheaths glabrous, 
the upper ones exceeding the internodes; ligule 3™™ long, hya- 
line, becoming lacerate. Panicle ovate, 5-8 long by 3 wide 
at the base, strict; tays 2, rigidly flexuose, smooth or slightly 
scabrous, with 3—5 spikelets, branched from below the middle; 
spikelets not compressed, 3-5-flowered, falling extremely early, 
the largest ones 5™™ long; marginal apex of the persisting glumes 
hyaline, subequal, lower 1™™ long, upper broadly spoon-shaped ; 
lower palet conspicuously 5-nerved, obscurely scabrous on the 
margin and the nerves, 3™™ long, broadly elliptical, the hyaline 
apex subtended by a narrow brown band; upper palet a trifle 
