PIPER NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF FESTUCA. 23 



The following specimens have been examined: 

 California : 



Fort Bragg, Davy & Blasdale 6117. 

 Point Reyes Peninsula, Davy 6811. 

 Oregon : 

 Tillamook Bay, Howell, July, 1882. 



13g. Festuca rubra kitaibeliana (Schultes). 



Festuca barbata Schrank, Prim. Fl. Salisb. 46. 1792, not L. 1759. 



Festuca pubescens Willd. ; Link, Enum. 1: 91. 1821, not Zea; R. & 8. Syst. 2: 728. 

 1817. "In Hungaria." 



Festuca rubra subvillosa Mert. & Koch in Rohling, Deutschl. Fl. ed. 3. 1 : 654. 1823, 

 not F. duriuscula subvUlosa op. cit. 648. 



Festuca rubra rillosa Mert. & Koch in Rohling, Deutschl. Fl. ed. 3. 1 : 654. 1823, 

 not F. omna villosa Schrad. Fl. Germ. 1 : 320. 1806. 



Festuca kitaibeliana Schult. INIant. 2 : 398. 1824. New name proposed for F. pubescens 

 Willd. 



Bromus secundus Presl,. Rel. Haenk. 1: 280. 1830. Type specimen from Nootka 

 Sound, Vancouver Island, collected by Haenke; a duplicate in the herbarium of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. 



Festuca rubra barbata Hack. Mon. Fest. 139. 1882. Based on F. barbata Schrank. 



Festuca rubra pubescens \2i^ey', Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 607. 1896. Type in her- 

 barium Michigan Agricultural College, collected in Oregon by Howell. 



jPesfuca 7'i<6ra secwndct Scribner, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 10: 39. 1899. Based on -BromM6' 

 secundus Presl. 



This much-named plant ranges in North America from Alaska to Greenland, 

 southward to Oregon, Wyoming, Ontario, and New Brunswick. Specimens from 

 South Burlington, Vermont {Jones), and Andover, New Hampshire (Briggs), are 

 probably introduced. Viviparous forms occur occasionally. Some Alaskan speci- 

 mens have exceptionally large spikelets nearly 2 cm. long, but otherwise show no 

 differences. 



13h. Festuca rubra lanuginosa Mert. & Koch. 



Festuca dumetorum Rafn. Danm. Hoist. Fl. 1: 549. 1796, not L. 1762. 



Festuca arenarla Osbeck in Retz. Suppl. Prim. Fl, Scan. 1: 4. 1805, not Lam. 1791. 



Festuca rubra arenaria Fries, Fl. Halland. 28. 1818. 



Festuca villosa Schweigg, in Hagen, Chlor. Boruss. 35. 1819, not F. onna villosa, 

 Schrad. 1806^ 



f Festuca oraria Dum. Agrost. Belg. 105. 1823. 



Festuca rubra lanuginosa Mert. & Koch in Rohling, Deutschl. Fl. ed. 3. 1: 654. 1823. 

 "Auf magerm Flugsande am Gestade desMeeres in Hinterpommern und Ostpreussen 

 (der Kurischen Nehrung)." 



Festuca baltica Homann, Fl. Pomm. 1: 56. 1828. 



Festuca lanuginosa Scheele, Flora 1 : 63. 1844. 



Festuca richardsoni Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 250. 1840. Type from "the Arctic sea- 

 coast" of North America, collected by Richardson. Specimens in the Gray and 

 Torrey Herbaria are probably duplicate types. 



The Richardson specimens are quite identical with Arctic European specimens, 

 and correspond to F. rubra arenaria forma arctica Hack. Mon. Fest. 140. Specimens 

 from Port Clarence, Alaska, Doctor Yemans, August, 1884, are identical. Specimens 

 collected on Unimak Island, Alaska, by Macoun (22801) are taller and agree with 

 the ordinary European plant. 



