AN ENUMERATION OF THE PLANTS COLLECTED, WITH ECONOMIC 
NOTES 
EQUISETACEZ. 
Equisetum levigatum A. Br. 
Montana: Melrose, common, forming a small portion of the Lay in wet meadows; b 
many this is regarded as a good hay plant; said to be especially relished by 
horses; July 6 (341,! 2094). 
GRAMINEZEH, Grasses.? 
Andropogon nutans avenaceus Hack. 
Colorado: La Salle, September 4 (2513). 
Nebraska: North Platte, September 5 (2515). 
Andropogon hallii grandiflorus var. nov. 
Colorado: Mountains near Golden, August 30 (747), and in the foothills near Meadow 
Park, August 15 (605, 2366). A robust variety with the hairs of the rachis and 
pedicels yellow, spikelets 6 to 7 lines long, the second glume only being pilose 
on the keel near its apex. A subvariety of 4. hallii flaviolus Hack. 
Andropogon provincialis Lam. 
Nebraska: Abundant in meadows along the North piget River, September 6 (768). 
Colorado: Hills near Golden, not common, August 30 (2499). 
Andropogon scoparius Michx. 
Nebraska: Comm the prairies and bluffs, September 5 (769, 2517 
Colorado: ias grana frequent in rocky places in the foothills, Angas 15 (601); 
Iden, common in Clear Creek Canyon, August 30 (749, 750); Boulder, Septem- 
ber 3, (163). 
um capillare L. 
Nebraska: Central City, June 19 (264, 2011), abundant in sandy pastures along the 
Platte Riv e and affording a poor quality of forage when young 
Colorado: Golden, not common, August 29 (755, 2505). 
Utah: Logan, 1 9 
Panicum capillare brevifolium Vasey in Herb. 
Culms tufted, low, 6 inches or less, bearing two or three short and broad leaves; 
primary panicle-branches nearly horizontal, few-flowered; spikelets acute, 1} lines 
long, the acute first glume about one-half the length of the subequal second and 
third. 
Montana: Were 1 se a ipm sand bar in the Gallatin River; rare; July 19, 
436. p l Herbarium by a specimen bom Washington. 
Panicum crus-galli muticum Vasey. 
Colorado: Meadow Park, frequent in moist ground, August 15 deni Golden, grow- 
ing in water and cultivated fields, e 29 (753, 2502, 250: 
¡Numbers 251 to 772 were collected by Mr. 0.1 L. Shear, and numbers 2001 to 2523 
were collected by Mr. P. A. Rydberg. 
2Determined by F. Lamson-Scribner. 
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