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Specimens in the National Herbarium marked A. violaceum majus Vasey, belong 
partly here, and in part to A. pseudorepens. A. violaceum of many Western col- 
lectors also LM gs here. 
Agropyron tenerum ciliatum Scribn. & Smith, var. nov. Sheaths pubescent, or 
the lowest ones densely hairy. / Froin Minnesota to Nebraska and Utah. 
Agropyron tenerum longifolium Scribn. & Smith, var. nov. Three to 4 feet high, 
with smooth and shining rigid culms, long, attenuate-pointed, involute leaves " 
nearly as long as the culm, and slender cylindrical spikes, 6 to 10 inches long; 
iine de s and wenn pr ados : 
Y especimens collected by Thomas 
Mowell, 256 (1887), near Giant’s Pass, ey There is also a ee which E 
was exhibited by the Oregon World's Fair commission, collected in One 
sheet of Bolander's 6110, from io northern California, belongs Bes 
Agropyron violaceum Vasey. Grass. U. S.; Special Rept. De Mem of pa 
No. 63, p. 45, 1883. Triticum hain norm , Fl. Dan. t. 2044 (1832). The 
typical or ap ate form of this species is "noH in the National Her- 
barium by specimens from Grinnell Land, collected by Gen. A. W. Greely in 
1883, and font Labrador, Nova Scotia, and the White Mountains. Very closely 
approaching this, and not sufficiently distinct to be distinguished as a variety, 
is a form widely distributed in the Rocky Mountains from Colorado to Alaska 
and northward from the Saskatehewan plains to the Arctic Circle, with more t 
slender culms 14 to 23 feet high, and rigid leaves 3 to 7 inches long, becoming 
convolute when dry, the uppermost leaf urs shorter than its sheath, somos 
very short, those of the innovations often 7 or 8 inches long. 
Specimens in the National Herbarium: ise Land, General Greely, 1883, 
Labrador: 676 Towner and 6071 Low, 1894. New kehte: C. cion, 1882. 
Colorado; Crandall, Cameron Pass, 1890. Utah: 77b, ies: 1517 M. E. Jones, 
1879, distributed as Triticum repens var. Rage ese Vasey; 349 Tracy, 1887; 582 
Mee 5 e British Columbia: 71 Macoun, 1872; 97 Rothrock, 1866. 
Alaska: 88 Dawson, 1887, Yukon River. 
ota ee latiglume Scribn. & Smith, var. nov. Culms 10 to 16 inches 
high, erect, rigid, wiry. Culm leaves 1 to 2 inches long, glaucous, . 
when dry, linear-lanceolate, acute, hairy on both sides, scabrous on the margins 
and e the uppermost leaf one-half to three-fourths inch long R ikes 
long exserted, 1 to 2 inches long. Empty glumes oblanceolate, acute, w ith broad, 
searious margins, short-awned or awnless, becoming flat with age; flowering 
glumes rounded on the back, densely pubescent; leaves of the innovations like 
m of the culm, 1 to 2 inches long. 
" From Montana to Alaska, Specimens in the National Herbarium: 1011 Tweedy, 
1886, gre Lone Mountain, Gallatin County, Mont., and 36 Dawson, 1887, Yukon 
Agropyron 9 andinum Scribn. & Smith, var. nov. Culms geniculate 
densely tufted, weak, 8 to 14 inches high. Spike short and compact, 2 to 3 
inches long, awns as long as or longer than the flowering glumes. Empty and 
flowering glumes 4 to 5 lines e. 4 
High mountains in Colorado above timber line. No. 720 Jones, 1878, Nds El l 
Peak; 35 and 37 Patterson, 1885, Grays Peak; 62 and 104 Letterman, 1885, Kel w 
13 392 and 693 Shear: 1895, Grays Peak. 
tt Basal culm leaves shorter than the upper ones. 
opyron gmelini Seribn. & Smith, sp. nov. Culms 2 to 4 feet high, = rather 
slender, glabrous, cylindrical; nodes brownish; sheaths longer than the inter- 
nodes, open at the throat, glabrons, ees ‘Shak the blades; ligule A short, 
membranous; culm leaves 4 or 5, the upper ones 5 to 12 e long, linear, atten- 
uate-pointed, glabrous below, soabrons on tho margin and strigose 
