28 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



The following specimens belong here: 

 Utah: 



Aquarius Plateau, L. F. Ward 502, altitude 3,500 m. 



Brigham Peak, Jones 5955, altitude 3,700 m. 

 Akizona: 



Mount Agassiz, Lemmon, September, 1884. 



White Mountains, Griffiths 5338, 5243. 



Hart's Little Spring, Tourney, July 13, 1892. 



San Francisco Peaks, Leiberg 5957, altitude 2,800 m. 



Without locality, Rushy 901. 

 Califoenia: 



Plumas County, Lemmon 4653. 



15i. Festuca ovina ingrata Hack. 



Festuca ovina ingrata Hac^. ; Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 598.1896. Type specimen in 

 the National Herbarium, collected by Howell in Oregon. 



Festuca ovina columbiana Beal, op. cit. 599. Type in Herbarium Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, published as from Pullman, Washington, but really collected in the 

 Blue Mountains of Columbia County, Washington, by Lake and Hull. 



Festuca ovina oregona Hack. ; Beal, op, cit. 599, not Festuca oregona Vasey. Type 

 in the National Herbarium, collected by Cusick in Oregon (no. 753). 

 t^'^^Festuca idaJioensis Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 36: 53. 1903. Type specimens from Smiths 

 Valley, Shoshone County, Idaho, collected by Abrams. We have examined a dupli- 

 cate in Elmer's herbarium. The leaves of this specimen are unusually smooth. 



This is the "blue bunch grass" of stockmen, and is an important range grass. It 

 occurs from British Columbia and Alberta south to California and Colorado. 



It is the American analogue of the Old World Festuca ovina valesiaca (Schleich. ) 

 Koch, and has sometimes been referred to the European F. ovina sulcata Hack. 

 The following are representative collections: 

 Washington: 



Pullman, Elmer 299, 826. 

 Falcon Valley, /%l-sc?or/ 1142. 

 Clark Springs, Kreager 41, 68. 

 Mount Carlton, Kreager 241. 

 Oregon: 



Grizzly Butte, Leiberg 276. 

 Without locality, Cusick 2507. 

 Califoenia : 



I*lumas County, Lemmon 4653. 

 Highland Springs, Davy 6647. 

 Albeeta : 



Sheep Mountains, Macoun 13148. 

 Beitish Columbia: 



Deer Park, Macoun 52. 

 Montana: 



Spanish Basin, Eydberg & Bessey 3676. 

 Lima, Rydberg 2070; Shear 320. 

 Idaho : 



Beaver Canyon, Rydberg 2061; Shear 305. 



Little Potlatch River, Sandberg, Heller, & MacDougal 451. 



Viola, Sandberg, Heller, & MacDougal 504. 



Lake Waha, Heller 3318, 3288. 



