388 BOTANl. 



in the lower valleys, from the Sierras to the Wahsatch ; 4-8,000 feet altitude ; 

 June-September. The Californian grass, (2035 Hartweg,) upon which 

 Munro's still undescribed species Sderochloa Californica was founded, and the 

 similar 43 Bolander, distributed as Atropis Californica, Munro, ined., are 

 somewhat different, as has been remarked by Dr. Gray, and are probably 

 distinct. (1,318.) 



PoA Andina, Nutt., Ms. in Herb.; (not of Trin.) In dense perennial 

 tufts, glabrous excepting the more or less scabrous panicle; culms 4-12' high, 

 slender, erect ; leaves very narrow, 1-3' long, mostly revolute ; ligules ^-2" 

 long, acuminate; panicle narrow or linear, strict, 1-2 1' long, the branches 

 2-3 together; spikelets 2-3-flowered; glumes lJ-2" long, acute or acutish, 

 a little scabrous on the midvein ; palets 1 J" long, pubescent, villous at base, 

 the lower one obscurely nerved, but little compressed. — Colorado. East 

 and West Humboldt Mountains and in the Clover Mountains, Nevada ; 

 8,500-11,000 feet altitude; also in the Trinity Mountains at 4,500 feet alti- 

 tude; May-September. (1,319.) 



Erageostis po^oides, Beauv., Yar. megastachya, Grray. Salt Lake 

 Valley, near Brigham City. Introduced. (1,320.) 



Erageostis Pueshii, Bernh. From New Jersey through the Southern 

 States to Louisiana ; New Mexico. On the banks of the Truckee River, 

 Nevada ; 4,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,321.) 



Festuca tenella, Willd. From New York to Florida and westward to 

 the Upper Missouri and Texas ; California. Trinity Mountains, Nevada, and 

 in Salt Lake Valley and on Antelope Island, Utah ; 4-4,500 feet altitude ; 

 May, June. Awns nearly equaling the palet. (1,322.) 



Festuca miceostachys, Nutt. Plant. Gamhel, Jour. Acad. Phil., n. s., 

 1. 187. Annual or biennial; culms slender, erect, 4-15' high ; sheaths 

 pubescent or smooth ; leaves convolute-bristleform ; panicle 1-6' long, strict 

 and spikelike or more frequently with the secund branchlets and spikelets 

 spreading or cernuous ; pedicels short and clavate-thickened ; spikelets 1-5- 

 flowered, pubescent or scabrous or even glabrous; glumes lJ-3" long, acute, 

 the upper but little exceeding or nearly twice longer than the lower one ; 

 palet 2-3" long, with the awn 3-5" in length. — A quite variable species, 

 described by Nuttall from the pubescent few-flowered form ; frequent in 

 Cahfornia. The present specimens are open-panicled, with glabrous or 

 scabrous mostly 5-flowered spikelets, the glumes 3" long, very acute and 



