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-VILFA ATIROIDES, Trin. (Sporobolus, Torr.) Like the last, but t 
panicle at length much exserted, very open and widely Fiscal 
beardec Pa ee mostly ereet and involute.-—Caion City, Brandegee. 
Hall & ‘tian bour, 647, 
VILFA ASPERIFOLIA, Nees & Meyen. Culms laren! at base from 
running root-stocks, decumbent and often rooting, 6’-15’ long, glabrous ; 
the smooth, naked sheaths equaling or exceeding the inter taste ; leaves 
flat, rough on the marg oO 1’-3’ long, 1” broad, acuminate, tapering up- 
Ww ard from a a broad base, erect; branches of the e loose, es panicle 
capillary, solitary, ss naked ; spikelets less than 1” long, often 2-tlow- 
red; glumes slightly unequal, hispid on the back, acute, one-third 
shorter than the nearly equal palets; lower palet Ce perwnnie ‘he upper 
obtuse.—Caiion City, Brandegee. Hall & Harbour, 641; 
ILFA RAMULOSA, H. B. K. Steud. Gram., 158. Root ten phe: 
culms very slender, branching from the base, 3-10’ high; sheaths 
htly hair Ss 
flat or convolute, 1/2’ long, 4-1” wide, roughish; panicle elongated and 
_ father narrow, often sheathed at base; branchlets scattered ; spikelets 
scarcely 4” long, obtusish, on spreading, finely capillary pedicels; glumes 
hearly ‘equal ; palets obtuse, nearly twice longer.—Divide between Den- 
ver and Colorado 8 Springs, Porter. Hal! & Harbour, 643. 
‘eae iy eh Torr.—Hall & Harbour, 661. 
VILFA DEPAUPERATA, Torr. Root perennial, creeping; culms ascend- 
ing, appressed, antic: slender, — gel eniculate, glabrous, striate, 
rather rigid, 4°-2° long ; leaves 1 3! Jon *, harrow an nd usually convolute, 
tera or spreading ; ‘panicle, very lendes, and contracted, 1/—-3/ long, 
mpound or often nearly simple ; spikelets small; glumes unequal, ovate, 
tbtaee or acutish, membranous, 3 the length of the acute lower palet.— 
Like the former, but differs in its short obtuse glumes, smaller flowers, 
harrower inv olute leaves and more slender habit.—Hall & Harbour, 660. 
South Park, Canby. Wet Mount a Tes i Brandegee. Divide between 
Denver and Colorado Springs, Por 
TRICHOLEPIS, Torr. Pac " R. R. Rep., vol. 4, p. 155. Culms 
erect, aaanke terete, 9’-18/ high, tufted; nodes distant; sheaths glabrous ; 
ligule truncate; leaves 4” broad, glabrous; ; branches of the oblong, rather 
dense panicle alternate, naked in the axils; branchlets Paendnes : ta se 
longer than the spikelets ; glumes nearly equal, acutish, } shorter than the 
nearly equal pilose palets ; lower palet tr erved. —Hall & Harbour, ‘631. 
Pike’s Peak, Canby. South Park, Por 
_ AGROSTIS SCABRA, Willd.—Mt. Elbert, at 10,000 feet altitude, a 
a Madre Range, Coulter. Twin Lakes, Porter. Caion City, Bran 
AGROSTIS poericts ogee uae Agente ig Root pe a fibrous; 
umes 
sly or aoa sa ne aeatns n the back, slightly unequal, 1//-2’ 
long; lower palet usually any: ra half shorter, erose-truncate, very 
Tarely awned above the middle, glabrous or - little — at base, the 
ary.—Co. 
_ Upper one a little smaller than the ov. rado, Ve 
AGROSTIS CANINA, L.—Hall & Harbour, 671. 
AGROSTIS VULGARIS, With.—Caiion City, Brandegee. Hoopes. 
