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more nearly equal. Dry hillsides and valleys from the Trinity Mountains to 

 the Havallah Range, Nevada, and near Salt Lake City, Utah ; 4,300-5,000 

 feet altitude ; May, June. (1,323.) 



Festuca ovina, L. With the awn half the length of the flower. In- 

 digenous from Northern New England and Wisconsin to the Saskatchewan 

 and Rocky Mountains, Bear Lake and Behring Strait ; Grreenland ; Colorado. 

 East Humboldt Mountains; 7-8,000 feet altitude ; July, August. (1,324.) 



Var.BEEViFOi.iA. (F. hrevifolia, Br. 8(eud. Gram. SIS.) Tufted; culms 

 low and slender, 4-8' high ; leaves setaceous and sheaths glabrous, the uj)per- 

 most leaves often very short and the sheath rather loose ; panicle racemose 

 and nearly simple, erect, 1-2' long ; spikelets 1-4-flowered ; flowers terete, 

 somewhat scabrous, about 2" long, twice the length of the awn. — Referred 

 to F. ovina, by Munro. Arctic Coast and Rocky Mountains. 373 Parry, 

 666 Hall & Harbour, and 620 Vasey are very nearly the same. — On the 

 highest peak of the Clover Mountains, Nevada; 11,000 feet altitude ; Sep- 

 tember. (1,325.) 



Festuca 1 Culms tufted from a biennial or perennial fibrous 



root, 10' high ; nearly glabrous ; sheaths exceeding the internodes ; leaves 

 revolute, linear-setaceous, 1-3' long ; panicle open, the branches 3-5 together, 

 naked at base, puberulent, bearing 1-3 purplish, 3-4-flowered spikelets; 

 glumes acute, the upper IJ" long, nearly twice exceeding the lower, ob- 

 scurely 5-nerved ; flowers 1^" long, cylindrical ; palets nearly equal, acutish, 

 the lower 5-nerved, the upper slightly bifid.^CoUected by Stretch (144) in 

 Western Nevada ; in Herb. Torrey. 



Beomus bebviaeistatus, Thurb. (1) {Certatochloa, Hook. Fl. Bor. 

 Amer. 2. 253, t. 234.) " Panicle .elongated, loose, somewhat nodding or erect; 

 spikelets lanceolate, compressed and sharply 2-edged, minutely scabrous ; 

 glumes moderately unequal, acute but not awned, nerved ; lower palet acutely 

 keeled, many-nerved, short-awned ; leaves broadly linear, a httle hairy, the 

 sheaths villose-tomentose ; culms 2-3" high."— Difiering from Douglas' plant 

 chiefly in the character and amount of pubescence, the sheaths being simply 

 hairy but not tomentose, (or very frequently wholly naked,) and the spikelets 

 silky-pubescent, but less so than in B. Kalmii. Panicle 3-8' long, slightly 

 compound ; spikelets about 1' in length, 6-8-flowered ; glumes 4-5" long, 

 the lower about 3-nerved, the upper 7-nerved, (about 5 and 9-nerved accord- 

 ing to Hooker;) lower palet 5-8" long, with an awn of 1-2"; leaves mostly 



