134 The Botanical Gazette. [March, 
innovationum hanc longitudinem excedentes, circa sesqui- 
lineam late, sensim in apices longiusculos filiformesque at- 
tenuate, minute scabre per margines et nervo supra. Pani- 
cula simplex, 3-7 spiculis, axe commune pedicellisque sub- 
compressis, scabrisque; spicule plus minus decem lineas 
longe, 5—-7-flore; glumz vacuz membranacez ovato-lanceo- 
late, acute, trinerves aut basi 5—7-nerves, subaequales, floscu- 
los paullo superante; glume florentes quam vacue_paullo 
firmiores, plus minus 7 lineas longe, ovate, plerumque I 
nerves basi, trinerves superne, dorso marginibusque longius- 
cule sericeo-pilose, apice dentibus aristato-acutis. Callus 
longiusculus, lateribus dense barbatis. Arista 6-7 lineas 
onga, robusta, inferiore parte plana, laxe contorta, pallide- 
Straminea, superiore attenuata, plus minus scabra. Palea 
plus minus 5 lineas longa late-ovata, brevissime ciliata pe 
Margiues et apice acute bidentata. : 
This species has been referred both to Danthonia series 
Nutt. and Danthonia intermedia Vasey. It is distinguish 
much longer, and the awn about twice as long. é 
My attention was first called to this species by some sP& 
mens collected by Dr. Parryin Colorado. It equals no. 2,39f 
Rydberg, collected in the valley about three miles north 0 
Georgetown, Colo., August 19, 1895. It was distributed 7 
