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narrow ; the broadest 2-3" wide. Common in the mountains of Nevada, at 

 5-7,000 feet altitude, and probably extending from Washington Territory to 

 New Mexico. (1,326.) The more glabrate and rather more frequent form 

 is distributed separately. (1,327.) 



Bromus ciliatus, L. From Florida to California and northward to the 

 Arctic Ocean. East Humboldt Mountains ; 6,000 feet altitude. (1,328.) 



Pheagmites communis, Trin. From Florida to Canada and westward 

 to the Pacific. On the banks of fresh water streams and springs from the 

 Truckee to the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 4-6,000 feet altitude. 

 Sugar is said by Durand & Hilgard to be extracted from the stalks of this 

 grass by the Indians, but the scanty juice is not at all saccharine. A sweet 

 secretion, however, is sometimes formed upon it in considerable quantity by 

 aphides, as well as upon the leaves of cottonwood and other trees, and is col- 

 lected by both the Utes and Mormons. (1,329.) 



Triticum eepens, L. From the Northern States and the Upper Mis- 

 souri to the Arctic Ocean and Behring Strait, and from the Indian Territory 

 and Northern Texas to Colorado, Utah, and California. Frequent and some- 

 times abundant in the valleys and mountains ; well known as "Blue-joint," 

 and valuable for hay and grazing ; 5-9,000 feet altitude. Either awnless or 

 nearly so. (1,330.) 



Triticum caninum, L. Leaves linear-lanceolate, flat ; spikelets much 

 longer than the joints of the rachis; glumes acuminate or awned. From New 

 England and the Northern Border States to the Saskatchewan ; Dakota ; 

 Colorado; California. "West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada. (1,331.) 



Triticum strigosum, Steud. Gram. 347. {Bro?nus, Bieb. T. cegilo- 

 poides, Turcz.) Resembling the last, but glaucous, the leaves narrow and 

 revolute ; spike narrow-linear, with the spikelets shorter than the joints or 

 but little exceeding them ; glumes obtuse or acutish or sometimes acumi- 

 nate. — Colorado, (657 Hall & Harbour ; 625 Vasey ;) Washington Terri- 

 tory, (Douglas.) Frequent in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, at 

 6,500-9,000 feet altitude ; also near Black Rock at the south end of Salt 

 Lake at 4,500 feet altitude, with the upper florets of the spikelets awnless ; 

 July-September. (1,332.) 



HoRDEUM JUBATUM, L. On the sea-coast of the Northern States, 

 and from the upper Grreat Lakes and the Saskatchewan to the Mackenzie 

 River and Sitka, and south and westward to Northern Texas, Arizona, Call- 



