ffo. 61, 



D ANTHONIA CALIFORNICA Boland. Proc. Cal. Acad. ii. 182(1802). 



Plant perennial, usually pale green, often purple in the inflorescence. 



Culms erect, or geniculate at the lower nodes, smooth, slender, thickened at the 

 base, leafy nearly to the panicle, 1 to 2\ feet tall. 



Leaves of radical shoots numerous, with short sheaths and slender, involute 

 blades 4 to 8 inches long : leaves of the culm 1 to 6 ; sheaths rather loose, closed at the 

 hairy throat, striate, usually pubescent, mostly shorter than the nearly equal inter 

 nodes ; blades flat or loosely involute, scabrous, especially toward the involute points, 

 often thinly pubescent, 2 to 5 inches long ; ligule nearly obsolete. 



Inflorescence a short, simple panicle of 3 to 8 spikelets on spreading, flexuons 

 pubescent pedicels about equaling the spikelets. 



Spikelets cuneate, compressed, 5- to 8-flowered, 6 to 8 lines long; empty glumes 

 lance-ovate, with long, carinate or involute points which are obtuse when unrolled, in- 

 distinctly 3- to 7 nerved, about equal, 6 to 7 lines long; floral glume broadly lauce- 

 oblong, acuminate, with 2 teeth 1 line long at the apex, smooth except a tuft of 

 pilose hairs midway on each margin or often slightly ciliate on the margins through- 

 out, 9- to 11-nerved, 4 to 5 lines long; awn arising at the base ot the sinus, slightly 

 hispid, often twisted and bent, 3 to 5 lines long; palet oblong, 3- toothed at the apex, 

 margins flatly infolded, ciliate on the prominent keels, 3 to 3£ lines long; stamens 3, 

 with brown anthers, 1£ lines long, exserted; ovary smooth; grain opaque, nearly 2 

 lines long; lodicules 2, rather fleshy, 3-lobed above, \ ^ me l° n 8'j internode of rachilla 

 pubescent, less than £ line long, the upper joint usually bearing an awned rudiment. 



Plate LXI; a, spikelet with florets spread somewhat; b, first empty glume; 

 c, second empty glume; d, floral glume; e, palet;/, floret. 



Central California northward to Washington and eastward to Nevada and Montana. 



