392 BOTAFT. 



feet altitude ; August, September ; a low form (4-10' high) with usually 

 broad leaves, often sheathing the base of the spike, as first described by 

 Nuttall. (1,337.) Taller specimens, with narrow convolute leaves and 

 short awns, were also collected on Carrington Island in Salt Lake; 4,300 

 feet altitude ; June. (1,338.) 



Danthonia Califoenica, Bol. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2. 182. Glabrous 

 or more or less villous-pubescent or scabrous; culms J-3° high, from a 

 perennial fibrous root, erect, slender, glabrous; sheaths bearded at the 

 throat ; ligule very short ; leaves linear, 3-4' long, 1-2" broad ; panicle 

 simple or subcompound, the few (1-10) spikelets terminal upon the solitary 

 filiform divergent scabrous or pubescent branchlets ; spikelets 5-10-flowered, 

 compressed; glumes 7-9" long, purphsh, smooth; joints of the rachis 

 bearded ; lower palet 3-5" long, villous on the margin, the awns equaling 

 the palet and twice the length of the awned teeth. — About San Francisco 

 Bay, California. Wahsatch Mountains, above Parley's Park; 7,000 feet 

 altitude ; June. (1,339.) A low form was collected near the same locality, 

 with but a single spikelet and the leaves somewhat villous. (1,340.) 



Avena fatua, L. Steud. Gram. 230. Culm 2-3° high, erect, smooth; 

 leaves broad, (2-6",) scabrous, very rough on the margins ; ligule short ; pan- 

 icle erect, the 2 3-flowered spikelets few or solitary and erect upon the fili- 

 form divergent branchlets; glumes 9-15" long, 9-11-nerved; palets 6-8" 

 long, brownish and pilose with rufous hairs, the geniculate twisted awn 1-2' 

 in length. — Abundant throughout the valleys of California. In a cultivated 

 meadow near Union ville, Nevada; doubtless adventive. (1,341.) 



Avena sativa, L., was also found growing on the shores of Soda Lake 

 in Carson Desert, an estray from some emigrant's wagon. (1,342.) 



Teisetum subspicatum, Beauv. From Northern New England to Wis- 

 consin and the Rocky Mountains, and northward to the Arctic Ocean, Behr- 

 ing Strait, and Greenland ; Colorado ; California. On the peaks of the 

 East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada; 9,500-10,000 feet altitude; 

 August, September. (1,343.) 



AiEA C^SPITOSA, L. From the Northern States to the Saskatchewan 

 and the Rocky Mountains ; Colorado and California ; Sitka. On stream- 

 banks in Ruby and Huntington Valleys, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 

 6,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (1,344.) 



AiKA DANTHONioiDES, Tnu. Steud. Gram. 221. Annual, glabrous; 



