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celeria posielitel 
Common on ditch banks. 
Panicum capillare. 
Common on low ground. 
Sporobolus airoides. 
und at Winnemucca and Palisade, Nev., and very sparingly on 
low ground here. 
Agropyrum glaucum (Blue joint, Blue-grass). 
-Common here and highly valued. 
Winnemucca, Nevada, July 23. 
The Humboldt River runs through this valley, but so far below the 
general level of the land that there are no cultivated fields. The Hum- 
boldt and Carson sink, where the river finally disappears, is during the 
rainy season a lake, but now a perfectly barren plain, while for miles on 
either side the soil is so dry and alkaline that nothing is produced ex- 
cept occasionally astunted grease-wood. The rain-fall here in 1886 was 
4 inches and this year to date has been .15 of an inch. 
Elymus Orcuttian 
Common in ce valley and-grows to some extent on the hills. It 
is the most valuable species here, being the main reliance 
through the year. 
Panicum a 
Somewhat common along the river. 
Hordeum alae 
Occasionally seen in well-watered yards. 
Setaria viridis. 
ith the above. 
Agrostis vulgaris (Redtop). 
Does well here. 
Poa pratensis (Kentucky blue-grass). 
Doing well here in irrigated grounds. 
Poa (too old for identification). Mountain bunch-grass, small bunch- 
8. 
Common on the hilis and mountains from here to Ogden. It is 
said to start very early and to make excellent spring forage, 
but it dies as soon as dry weather comes. When abundant and 
the seeds are ripe stock fatten rapidly upon it. At this date 
it has nearly all disappeared. 
Battle Mountain, Nevada, July 25. 
many miles in any direction, and no cattle nor sheep. In the town are 
In an extensive dry and barren valley, with no cultivated fields for 7 
