<li GRAMINEAE, 



Common on maritime Band dunes, Bandy beaches, and coast bluffs: San 

 Francisco; Alameda Marshes; Wesl Berkeley; Pt. Reyes. July-Aug. 



2. E. condensatus Preel. California Wild-rye. Rootstock Btout, creep- 

 ing ;iikI Btoloniferousj stems Btout, erect, 3 to 6 ft. high; sheaths smooth; 

 ligule about I line long, rounded, fimbrillate; blades about L2. in. long, 4 to 5 

 lines wide, flal with more or less involute edges below, long-acuminate, smooth 

 below, scabrous above; spike 5 to 8 in. long, compact, erect; rachis scabrous 

 <m the narrow wings; spikelets imbricate, appressed, in pairs, threes, or rarely 

 more, when more than three then sometimes 1 or 2 are pedicellate, y.> to :; ( in. 

 long, somewhat turgid, 4 to 5-flowered; bracts subulate, rather shorter than 

 the nearest bractlet, scabrid, about 6 lines long; bractlet scabrid at the apex, 

 pulverulent below, more or less shining; lowest about 5% lines long, including 

 the very short point, less than 1V> lines wide, 7-nerved; palea 5% lines long; 

 keels glabrous below, scabrous and ciliate above; anthers 2 to 2y> lines long; 

 scales about y± line long, ovate, ciliate. 



Moist places, Coast Range hills; not uncommon within our limits: lower 

 Sacramento River; Oakland Marshes; Port Costa; Berkeley Hills; Petaluma. 

 Apr. -Sept. 



3. E. triticoides Buckl. Slender Wild-rye. Usually glaucous throughout; 

 rootstock slender, creeping; stems slender or stoutish, erect, 2 to 3i/> ft. high; 

 sheaths smooth; ligule reduced to a narrow, truncate, fimbrillate ring; blades 

 6 to 12 in. long, 3% lines wide, flat or involute, scabrous on the margins and 

 nerves especially above; spike about 6 in. long, erect, somewhat lax; rachis 

 with a narrow, ciliate wing, puberulent; spikelets distant above and below, 

 overlapping in the middle, somewhat divergent, in pairs or threes be- 

 low, solitary above, % to % in. long, turgid, 4 to 6-flowered; bracts 

 sub-equal, 5 to 7 lines long, longer than, or equaling the nearest bract- 

 let acuminately subulate, scabrous on the nerves above; bractlets 

 3 to 5 lines long including the point, 1% lines wide, 9-nerved, glabrous; 

 palea 3% to 4 lines long, scabrous on the keels; anthers 2\'> lines long. 



Apparently preferring bottom lands in the warmer valleys, sometimes in 

 alkaline soils: Solano Co.; San Jose; Princeton. May-June. 



4. E. pubescens Davy. Pubescent Wild-rye. Erect perennial; rootstock 

 stoloniferous; stems 2 to 3 ft. high, erect, slender, scabrid; sheaths densely 

 retrorsely pubescent; ligule reduced to a truncate ring about y$ line long, 

 fimbrillate in young leaves; blades 3 to 6 1 -. in. long, 2 to 3 lines wide, flat. 

 auricled at base; spike .'! in. long; rachis with a narrow, ciliate wing; spikelets 



in pairs or often solitary, 4 to 5 lines long, few-flowered; bracts broadly 



linear-lanceolate, 5 lines long, about 1 line wide, scabrid; lowest bractlet 1 ' _. 

 lines long, scabrid; awn scabrid, 1% lines long; palea 3 J ._. to 4 lines long; 

 RntherB 1 line long; scales less than j •_. line long. 

 Pt. loves, in a swale facing the ocean. July. 



5. E. glaucus Buckl. Claucous Wild-rye. Erect perennial; rootstock 

 stoloniferous; stems tufted, erect from a more or less arcuate base, 2% to 3 

 ft. high, smooth; branches 2 to 3 from the base of each stem; sheaths smooth 

 01 minutely scabrid; ligule regularly truncate, entire, less than J ■_. line long; 

 blade flat, narrower than the sheath, auricled at the base, scabrid on both 



surfaces or the lower glabrous, -'•_- to 5 or rarely in very luxuriant specimens 



T'-j lines wide, acute; uppermost - ' j to I in. long, lowest about S in. long; 



Bpike Linear, erect, -'•_• to 5 or rarely 7 in. long. l!'._. to 4 lines wide; rachis 

 scabrid on the margins; spikelets in pairs, rarely threes, appressed, 4 to 6 



