16 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Stems erect, glabrous, 20 to 50 cm. high, 2 or 3-jointed; sheaths smooth or pubes- 

 cent, the lower nearly equaling the internodes; ligule nearly obsolete; blades flat or 

 loosely involute, narrowly linear, glabrous or pubescent, 3 to 10 cm, long; panicle 

 erect, 4 to 10 cm. long, the solitary rays and the spikelets all at length divaricate; 

 spikelets 1 to 3-flowered, 5 to 7 cm. long; glumes unequal, the lower subulate, 

 1-nerved, 3 to 4 mm. long, the upper lanceolate, 3-nerved, 4 to 5 mm. long; lemma 

 lanceolate, convex, 4 to 6 mm. long, pubescent, attenuate into a scabrous awn as 

 long or shorter; palea acuminate, equaling the lemma. 

 The following specimens have been examined: 

 Oregon: 



Grave Creek, Howell, May 20, 1884 (in part). 

 California: 



Salt Creek, Tulare County, Eastwood, May, 1894. 



South Pasadena, J.Z/en, April 4, 1885. 



Napa City, Jepson, April, 1893. 



Lake County, BlanMnship, June 3, 1893. 



8. Festuca eastwoodae 8p. nov. 



Culm erect, glabrous, 4-jointed, 30 cm. high; lower sheaths equaling or exceeding 

 their respective internodes, puberulent or glabrous; ligule very short; blades soft, 

 loosely involute, sharply acute, puberulent or glabrous; panicle open, 10 cm. long, 

 pubescent throughout; rays and spikelets all divaricate; glumes lanceolate, the lower 

 1-nerved, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, the upper 3-nerved, 3.5 mm. long, hirsute; lemma 

 lanceolate, hirsute, 4 or 5 mm. long, tipped with a straight scabrous awn as long or 

 longer. 



Collected by Miss Alice Eastwood, May, 1897, at Milpitas ranch, Santa Lucia 

 Mountains, Monterey County, California, and by an unknown collector at Volcano, 

 May, 1886. 



Differs from F. microstachys Nutt. essentially in its hirsute glumes. 



9. Festuca myuros L. 

 Festuca myuros L. Sp. PI. 1: 74. 1753. "Habitat in Anglia, Italia." 



DESCRIPTION. 



Stems erect, sometimes geniculate at base, solitary or forming small tufts, usually 

 20 to 60 cm. high, glabrous, 3-jointed, usually completely concealed by the sheaths; 

 sheaths always smooth, exceeding the internodes; ligule very short, truncate; blades 

 smooth, linear, involute or rarely flat; panicle long and narrow, 7 to 20 cm. long, 

 the branches appressed, the tips usually bending over; rays solitary; spikelets pale 

 green, 4 or 5-flowered, 8 to 11 mm. long, on stalks 1 to 2 mm. long; joints of the 

 rachilla cylindric, smooth; glumes glabrous, very unequal, the lower 1-nerved, 1.5 

 to 2 mm. long, the upper 4 to 5 mm. long, with two small lateral nerves; lemma 

 linear-lanceolate, obscurely 5-nerved, scabrous above, not ciliate, attenuate at apex 

 into a scabrous awn about twice its length; palea lanceolate, shorter than the lemma, 

 the nerves hispidulous; stamen 1. 



This European plant is commonly introduced in the eastern United States, but as 

 yet it is rare in the interior and on the Pacific slope. Indistinguishable from it so 

 far as we can see is the South American Festuca muralis Kunth, Syn. PI. 218. 1822. 



