CATALOGUE. 297 
pedicelled, all fertile, articulate at the base; glumes 2, membranaceous, 
subequal, awnless, externally covered with long silky hairs; inferior flower 
of 1 hyaline palet; superior flower perfect, of 2 minute, hyaline, awnless 
palets; stamens 2, styles 2, elongated; stigmas plumose; panicle con- 
tracted, spike-form, cylindrical; spikelets externally surrounded with long 
silky hairs; culm erect, 2—3°, and with the nodes and the leaves glaucescent 
and smooth ; leaves linear, setaceo-acuminate (1° or more long, 2” wide), 
rigid; panicle elongated-cylindrical, 4—-8’.— Nevada, 1871 and 1872; 
Sanoita Valley, 1874 (656). 
