384 BOTAFY. 



(11 Geyer.) In the East and West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in 

 the Wahsatch ; 7-10,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (1,303.) 



What seems to be merely a reduced form was also collected, 1° high 

 and very slender, with the leaves narrow and revolute, the panicle very nar- 

 row and with but 10-15 spikelets. This is nearly 621 Hall & Harbour, from 

 Colorado, which, however, has the glumes more acute and the culms less de- 

 cidedly enlarged at base, and was collected also by Bourgeau at the east base 

 of the Rocky Mountains. (1,304.) 



Melica steicta, Bolander. Proc. Calif. Acad. 3. 4 Culms 6-18' high, 

 slender, erect, purple at base, slightly scabrous above ; nodes smooth, covered ; 

 sheaths and leaves pubescent ; ligules broad, entire or lacerate ; panicle inter- 

 rupted, secund, the branchlets in pairs or solitary, pubescent and strongly 

 curved above, bearing a single nodding spikelet ; glumes 2-4-flowered, pur- 

 plish, nearly equal, thin and membranous, glabrous, obtuse, 6" long ; lower 

 palet rather more rigid, slightly puberulent on the back, 7-nerved, obtuse or 

 acutish, 5" long ; upper palet nearly half shorter, pubescent on the nerves. — 

 Yosemite Valley. Not rare on the mountain ranges of Nevada; 5-10,000 

 feet altitude ; May-September. (1,305.) 



Glyceeia paucifloea, Presl. Steud. Gram. 285. Roots creeping; 

 culms 1-3^° high) smooth, nodes naked ; sheaths and the broad-linear leaves 

 (3-12' long) scabrous ; panicle loosely spreading, the slender flexuous 

 branches in pairs, divided, scabrous ; spikelets narrow-oblong, 2" long, 4-6- 

 flowered, often purplish; glumes rounded, unequal, the lower obscurely 

 3-nerved, scarious on the margin, lower palet truncate-obtuse, the apex mi- 

 nutely serrulate and distinctly scarious, 5-nerved, the upper one emarginate. — 

 Described by Presl as near G. Jluitans, but it much more closely resembles 

 G. aquatica. Frequent in Oregon and Washington Territory and extending 

 eastward to Colorado, (662 Hall & Harbour ;) specimens from Mendocino 

 County, California, have the rounded apex of the lower palet frequently ab- 

 ruptly acute. Bear River Canon in the Uintas ; 8,000 feet altitude ; Au- 

 gust. (1,306.) 



Glyceeia aquatica. Smith. From New York to Wisconsin, Lake 

 Winnipeg and the Saskatchewan region, and in the Rocky Mountains south- 

 ward to Colorado ; Oregon ; California. Ruby and Huntington Valleys and 

 in the Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in Salt Lake Valley, Utah ; 4,500- 

 6,500 feet altitude ; June-September. (1,307.) 



