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the type of which came from *'on the banks of the IVIissouri." 

 Einocoma H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 4: 267. 1820, is x^co^- 

 nized as a valid genus, and should probably take the name 

 Montanoa Cerv. 1825. 



Agrostis stolonifera L. 



^No. 8342, collected May 29, in Silver canyon opposite 

 Laws, Inyo county, in wet places along a small stream; rather 

 plentiful. 



Calamagrostis purpurascens R. Br. in Rich. App. Frankl. 

 Jour. 731. 1823. 

 No. 8396, collected June 12, along the railroad near the 

 summit of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin county. A tall grass growing 

 in dense clumps. The type came from British America between 

 Point Lake and the Arctic Sea. 



Melica BELLA Piper, U. S. Dep. Agr. Div. Agrost. Circ. 27: 10. 

 1900. 



No. 8301, collected May 21, in the first canyon south of 

 Bishop, Inyo county, in the Sierra foothills, growang in coarse 

 granite sand on precipitous slopes. The type was collected in a 

 "rocky ravine. Upper Platte." 



Melica californica Scribn. 



No. 7799, collected May r, 1905, at Keene station in the 

 Tehachapi mountains, Kern county, on grassy banks. 



Melica torreyana Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1885: 47. 

 1885. 

 No. 8397, collected June 12, along the railroad near the 

 summit of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin county. A low grass growing 



in thick tufts. 



Poa buckleyana Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, '-i'i: 465. 1S95. 



Poa teniiifolia Buckley, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1862: 96. 

 1862; not A. Rich. 18^1. 



