40 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERRARIUM. 



slender, flexuous, angled, scabrous, few-branched above the middle; spikelets pale 

 green, sometimes purplish-tinged, oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 5-flowered, 7 to 12 mm. 

 long; joints of the rachilla cylindric, usually curved, scabrous, 1 to 2 mm. long; 

 glumes subulate, glabrous, the lower 1 -nerved, 2 to 3 mm. long, the upper 3-nerved, 

 3 to, 4 mm. long, each sparsely scabrous near the apex; lemma green, membranace- 

 ous, narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved, somewhat keeled for its whole length, scabrous 

 toward the apex, 5 to 7 mm. long, attenuate into a scabrous slender awn, 5 to 20 mm. 

 long; palea as long as the lemma or slightly longer, lanceolate, acute, the inflexed 

 sides one-third as broad as the internerve, the nerves scabrous. 



The species ranges from southeastern Alaska to northern California, and in the 

 Rocky Mountains to Wyoming and Utah. 



The following collections are representative: 



Alaska: 



Foggy Bay, Coville & Kearney 2572. 



Hovvkan, Evans 120. 



Cape Fox, L. J. Cole, July 26, 1899. 

 British Columbia: 



Queen Charlotte Island, NeiDCombe, July 24, 1897. 



Agassiz, Macoun 89. • 



Chilliwack Valley, Macoun 26113. 

 Washington: 



Klickitat County, Suksdorf 170. 



Seattle, Piper 938, 957. 



Clallam County, Elmer 1918, 1916. 



Blue Mountains, Horner 559. 



Clark Springs, Spokane County, Kreager 38. 

 Oregon: 



Wallowa Mountains, Casick 2507. 



Fagle Creek, Cusick 2434. 

 California f 



Moulton, Warner Mountains, Griffiths & Hunter 473. 

 Idaho: 



Lake Coeur d'Alene, Sandberg, Heller, & MacDougal 6^2. 

 Wyoming: 



Welcome, Williams 2685. 

 Utah: 



Ogden, Tracy S63. 

 Montana : 



Bozeman, Shear 465, 



Columbia Falls, Blankinship 1042. 



Subgenus III. Hesperochloa subgen. no v. 



Perennials, densely tufted, but producing occasional stout extravaginal stolons, 

 stigmas elongate, the numerous short branches arising from all sides, simple or but 

 little dentate; ovary deeply sulcate near the apex anteriorly, sparsely hispidulous 

 above; caryopsis beaked and bidentate at apex; hilum linear. 



34. Festuca confinis Vaeey. 



Poaf kingii Wats. Bot. King. Explor. 387. 1871. Type in the National Herbarium, 

 collected by Watson in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, July, 1868, altitude, 

 8.C00 feet. ^O ^A^ut^'^""''^'^ 



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