SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 149 
acute, half shorter than the spikelet; lower palet carinate, 3-nerved, 
(with promivent lateral nerves,) scabr ie pubescent, erose de nticulate 
at the apex, mucronate, villous at base, yper one about as long, con- 
spicuously 2-keeled, 2-toothed ; stam a3 ; ovary sng ; nquaintlas 2, 
obiguels truncate; caryopsis free. y Hall Ué Harbour, 
CELERIA CRISTATA, Pers.—Near Denver, B. H. Smith. Colorado 
Sieg "Por ter. Monument Park, Twin Lakes, and on the Upper Arkan- 
sas, Coulter. Hall & aon 650. 
MELICA oe SA, Geyer. (MZ. sg aregpeees: Torr. Bot. W hippl — uve) 
Gray in Proc mater a Sak 8, Culms aeapie, slender, 14°-2° high 
ften alaeped ‘tied bulb-like at hie, slightly scabrous ieee nodes, 
naked ; sheaths longer than the seiceiuies “nd scabrous, the ligules 
usually ong and lacerated; leaves scabrous, mostly flat and elongated, 
1-2” wide; panicle narrow and often interrupted, the branches unequal 
and erect, subscabrous, rarely spreading ; spiklets erect and scarcely 
= 
; r less pur 
acutish, glabrous, 5-nerved; lower palet about 4” long, 7-nerved, pu 
berulent on the back, membranous-mar ined, ie obtuse, upper palet 
ose on the nerves erose-truncate: g “ Ton 
Var. Culms slender, little enlarged ae (ee 1° aetr ; leaves narrow 
and revolute ; panicle narrow ; spikelets 10-15; glumes longer, more 
acute; lower palet obscurely 5-nerved, upper oe not pubescent on 
the margins.—Ute Pass and Twin Lakes, Cou 
MELICA MUTICA, Walt., Gr.; var. PARVIFLORA, Porter. Culms 20 
high; panicle narrow, 1° long; flowers 3-4, ciel r; leaves narrower 
spikelet much exceeding the larger glume; pedicels "be low the flowers 
more hairy.—Glen Kyrie, Porter. Meehan. Sierra Madre Range, Coulter 
i an, PAUCIFLORA, Presl. Steud. Gram., 285. Roots creeping ; 
culms 19-34° high, smooth, nodes naked; sheaths and the broad linear 
bag (3 doy long) s Scabxous ; | panicke loosely spreading, the slender 
2” long, 4-6-flowere 2, 0 ten purplish; glumes rounded, unequal, the 
lower obscurely 3-nerved, scarious on the margin, lower pa alet truncate- 
obtuse, the apex minutely Oe i and distinctly se scarious, 5-nerved, t e@ 
upper one emarginate.—Hall & Harbour, 662. Cation City, Brandegee, 
SN AQUATICA, Sm. —Hall & Hathou 29. Monument Park, 
Coul 
Guy YCERIA AIROIDES, Thurber. — airoides, Nutt. in Gen. 1, p. 68. 
Calm 4°-5° high, erect; leaves with very long sheaths, short and acute 5 
panicle erect, attenuated ; branches semi-vertie illat — = =e sate 
i i une 
. 
7 red ; glumes wey. unequal, shorter than the pal Toon] ‘dower is- 
Sy often 
inal at the point, obsoletely 5- nerved, inner v valve eabrous on the 
margin.—Hall & Harbour, 630. South Park, Porter. Cunhe: 
GLYCERIA DISTANS, Wahl. —Colorado, fide Watson. 
CATABROSA' AQUATICA, Beauv. (Glyceria, Presl., Steud. Gram., 286.) 
Rr a TO 
bee OSA, Beany. Buikelees 2 moreted Homers go aig ect. oe ma) 
ie 3-lobed. Stamens % “Styles 2, 
big ae rt; the Baler apg soaies 2 pale 9 theoyary. Grain “ 
shortly ‘Pediceled. oo ad creeping aquatics, with flat leaves, elonga mem 
i lig d diffuse sibeky ——- panicles with sednit-venGintliane iiches 
Baga and deci 
