768 GEAMINE^ festdca 



linear, acute, 3-nerved, about 3 lines long: flowering glumes elliptioal- 

 lanoeolate, about 3 lines long, the awn >^-2 lines long. Southern Oregon. 



Var. Columbiana Beal 1. c. 599. Stems 20-30 inches high, with 2 

 nodes; sheaths smooth: leaves of sterile shoots 7-12 inches long, firm, 

 glaucous: scabrous; nearly cylindrical: panicle thin, 2-7 inches long, its 

 branches scabrous, the longer 2-3)^ inches long: spikelets 4-7 lines long, 

 3-7-flowered, the first empty glume narrow about 3 lines long,, the second 

 linear, acute, 2)^-3 lines long: flowering glumes 3-3>^ lines long. About 

 Pullman Washington. 



Var. Oregana Hack. Bea) 1, c. 599. Stems slender, 2-3 feet high: 

 leaves of sterile shoots 4-6 inches long, panicle thin, 2-4 inches long, its 

 branches solitary ,tlie longest 1-3 inches long: spikelets 3-6-flowered; second 

 glume linear, subulate, 3 lines long: flowering glumes linear, 3 lines long, 

 palets .a little longer than the glilmes. Eastern Oregon. 



F. amethystlha L. Sp. 74. A tufted-perennial : stems rather slen- 

 der, 2-3 feet high, with 2-3 nodes: sheaths shorter than the internodes: 

 ligules a mere cUiolate ring: leaves of sterile shoots flaccid, conduplicate, 

 5-15 inches long: those of the stem 3-3, the upper 3-5 inches long: panicle 

 simple: secund, naiTOw or spreading, 4-8 inches long, the lower branches 

 usually in pairs, scabrous, the longer 4-6 inches long: spikelets linear- 

 lanceolate or oval 3-7-flowered, a,bout 3j4 lines long: first empty glumes 

 lanceolate, IJ^ l^nelong, the second linear-lanceolate, about 2 Imes long: 

 flowering glumes scarious, lanceolate-oblong, 2-3 lines long: involute, awn- 

 less or with an awn J^-l line long: palets linear, 2-toothed, scabrous on the 

 keels. Oregon to California, also in Europe. 



F. scabrella Torr. Hook. Fl. ii, 252, t. 233. An erect tufted peren- 

 nial 3-4 feet high: sheaths smooth: ligules acute, 1-5 lines long: leaves 

 of sterile shoots numerous, smooth or scabrous, involute, those of the 

 stem usually 3; rigid, scabrous above, 3-5 inches long: panicle thin, 5-7 

 inches long, its branches mostly in pairs, 3-5 inches long: spikelets 3-7- 

 flowered, 4-7 lines long: empty glumes chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, the 

 ■ first 1-nerved, 2-3 lines long, the second 3-nerved 2-3>^ lines long: flower- 

 ing glumes oblong, scabrous, 5-nerved, 3-4 lines long, sometimes with a 

 stout awn about ^ line long. Eastern "Washington to Alaska and Iowa. 



F. rnbra L. Sp. 74. A densely tufted perennial: stems ascending, 

 geniculate at base, l}^-23^ feet high, from running rootstocks, sheaths 

 usually shoilier than the internodes, ligules very short, truncate: basal leaves 

 involute-filiform: 3-6 inches long, those of the stem erect, flat or involute: 

 panicle 2-5 Inches long, sometimes red, open in flower, contracted in fruit: 

 spikelets 3-1 0-f lowered, 4r-6 lines long; empty glumes acute, the fhst l-nerved, 

 shorter than the 3-neiTed second one: flowering glumes about 3 lines long: ob- 

 scurely 5-nerved, sometimes scabrous, bearing awns of less than tUeu- own 

 length. Oregon to Alaska and Labrador. 



Var. fallax Hack. Fest. Eu. 142. Densely ceapitose, glaucous, 

 stronsfly tinged with purple, 20-30 inches high: panicle 3-4 inches long: spike- 

 lets elliptical-lanceolate, 3-7-flowered: flowering glumes 3-3 lines long, rather 

 abruptly pointed with a very short awn. Oregon and Washington to the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



Var. trichophflla Hack. 1. c. 141. Stems slender, about 30 inches 

 high, ascending fi'om creeping rootstocks: lower sheaths shredded: panicle 

 linear-oblong 3-5 inches long, flewering glumes linear-lanceolate, glabrous , 

 healing a short awn. Oregon and Euroj-e. 



Var. pnbescens Vasey, Beal 1. c. 607. Sterna loosely tufted, 2-3 



