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glumis sterilibus minutissime punctato-scaberulis, gluma fertili 

 majore etc. Planta gracilis 30-70 cm alta trinodis. Lamina 

 media longissima 20 cm lg., stiprema brevior paniculam superans 

 ad 5 mm lata. Panicula 7-10 cm lg. 1-1 J cm It., rhachi 

 scabra, rami's binis erectis filiformibus dense scabris pauei-spi- 

 culatis. Spiculae lanceolate 5-5J mm lg. acuminata?. Gluma 

 sterilis I ma Ham circa \ superans, in caudiculam attenuata 

 minutissime punctato-scaberula, II da 4-4 J mm \g. late-lanceo- 

 lata acuta breviter trinervia. Gluma fertilis glumam II am fere 

 aequans obtusa, supra basin in J inferiore aristam tenuem 

 rectam leviter scaberulam -f glumae aequantem emittens. Palea 

 glumam aequans obtusa levis. 



Hab. im monte Shirouma, prov. Shinano (S. Kawada ! 22. VIII. 

 1905). 



9. Calamagrostis (Deyeuxia) variiglumis Takeda. 



Culmus 60 cm altus et ultra gracilis subflexuosus 4- nodis 

 ad apicem usque foliatus infra paniculam scabriusculus. Va- 

 ginae internodiis breviores glaberrimi. Ligula brevissima vix 

 1 mm lg. truncata glabra brevissime fimbriata. Lamina 

 lineares longe acuminata virides rigiduke basin versus valde 

 attenuatae, media longissima ultra 20 cm saepe ad 30 cm lg., 

 suprema brevior 10—12 cm lg. saepius paniculam superans, 5-8 

 mm latae, supra scaberulae subtus glaberrimae margine scabrae. 

 Panicula ovata stricta laxiuscula patula 10-14 cm lg. 4-6 cm 

 It., rhachi scaberula, ramis binis capillaribus rigidtilis scabris ad 

 v. infra medium ramulosis, ramulis 1-2-spiculatis, spiculis longe 

 pedicellatis. Spiculae parvae subulatae 3-5 mm lg. pallide viri- 

 dulae. Glumae steriles in uno specimine nunc valde inaequales 

 nunc subasquales, I ma altero circa 3 mm lg. lanceolata acuta, 

 altero ad 5 mm lg. lineari-lanceolata caudato-acuminata, 1-ner- 

 via carina scaberula, II da I ma subaequilonga v. multo brevior 

 3-3J mm lg. late-lanceolata acutiuscula obsolete 3-nervia nervis 

 lateralibus brevissimis, leves vix carina scaberulae. Gluma 

 fertilis circa 3mm lg. ovato-lanceolata, apice late truncata saepe 

 bifida tenui-membranacea scaberula, inferne trinervia superne 

 binervia nervis in setulas brevissima^ excurrentibus, paullo in- 



