150 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
ulims 4/~2° high, ee stout, ascending; leaves 2/-6’ long, 2-4” 
aes scabrous on the margin; panicle saint pct apr numerous, 
divided; glumes ee , purplish ; flowers 1” in length, light-brown in 
color.—Ha ald Harb r, 663, Wet Monat Valley, “Brande, egee 
Br RIZOPYRUM SPIOATUM Hook, var. STRICTUM, Gray. ( Datbla ste ieta, 
Torr. Steud. Gram., 281.) Spikelets many flowered, and the panicle 
mostly rather loose and elongated, 14’-34/ in length ; culms $°-2° high; 
pistillate spikelets 4-8” long, 4-13- flowered, the lower palet acutish or 
ost acuminate; staminate spikelets 4-9” long, 6-18-flowered, slen- 
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der-pediceled an nd often somewhat nodding.—Hall & Harbour, 640. 
South Park, Porter 
Poa ALPINA, L.—Hall & Harbour, 674. Mt. Lincoln, at 12,500 fee 
altitude, Weston’s EP at 11,000 feet, and White House Mountain, at 
11,500 feet, Coulter 
POA CA4SIA, Smn., var. STRICTIOR, Gr.—On Pike’s Peak, Canby. Along 
the “2 aay Coulter 
POA SEROTINA, Bhrh, —Hall & Harbour, 672. Ute Pass, Porter. 
Weston’ agree Coulte. 
POA TENUIFOLIA, Ratt. Tufted, 19-2° high; culm slender, erect, gla- 
brous or with the sheaths and leaves more or less geile leaves nar- 
rowly hneax, 1’/-6' long; ligules short; panicle erect, narrow and rather 
close, 2/-6’ long, the ‘branchlets 2-5 together and Ssaeoae s; glumes 
2”-21” Jong, acute or acutish, a little scabrous on the mid-vein, 3—4-Hlow- 
ered; lower palat 2” long, 0 en nearly glabrous, puberulent or some- 
what pubescent at base, “put little spe at 8 Pag: rs readily separ- 
je at the joints.— Hall & Harbour, 668 an 
A ANDINA, Nutt. In dense perennial ‘iin plabruk excepting the 
sate or less scabrous panicle; culms 4/-2° high, ‘slender, erect 8 
very narrow, 1’-3’ long , mostly revolute; ligules 4/-2” long, acumi- 
nate; PRnicle narrow or linear, strict we Joy, ong, the branches 2 
together ; spikelets 2-3 flowered; glumes 13-2” long, acute or acutish, 
a little scabrous on the midvein; palets 14” long, eheigor villous at 
base, the shee one obscurely nerved, but little compressed.—Near éLong’s 
Peak, June, at 8,000 altitude, and Mount Lineoln, at 13 “dO feet, Coulter. 
hii duosrs PuRsSuHII, Bernh.—Near Denver, Dr. Smith. 
FESTUCA OVINA, L. Meehan. Caiion City, Brandegee. Clear Creek, 
Porter. pen ets Bes Smith. 
og st CULA, Gr.—Hall & Harbour, 665. Twin Lakes, Porter. 
Riv » Taglor Fives. and White House Mountain, at 13, 000 feet 
altitude, Contin 
Var. BREVIFOLIA, Watson. (F. brevifolia, Br., Steud. Gram., 313.) 
King’s Rep., vol. 5, ia 389. Tufted; culms low and. slender, 4 
.. leaves setaceous and sheaths glabrous, the uppermost leaves 
often very short and the sheath rather loose; panicle racemose and nearly 
simple, erect, 1/-2’ long; spikelets 1/-4/- flow ered ; flowers terete, some- 
re cabrous, about 2” long, twice the length of the awn.—Hall & Har- 
» Parry, 373. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Twin Lakes, Porter. 
Alged the Platte, rechten 
Bromus Katmtt, Gr., Culm 12/-18’ high, smooth; sheaths and 
Jeaves minutely seataoug: panicle 6 long, compound, branches minutely 
downy ; spikelets lV’ long, canescent with short appressed silky hairs 
