No. 82. 

 POA PULCHELLA var. MAJOR Vasey var. nov. 



Plant perennial, csespitose at the base, with a branching rootstock. 



Culms erect, or decumbent below and somewhat geniculate, slender, smooth, 

 1 foot tall. 



Leaves from the base numerous, with rather broad, scarious sheaths and flat or 

 convolute, smooth blades 1 line or less wide, 2 to 4 inches long : leaves of the culm usually 

 2, with close, striate, smooth sheaths shorter than the internodes, and erect, flat blades 



1 to 2 inches long ; ligule attenuate-pointed, 2 to 3 lines long. 



Inflorescence a loose, open panicle 2 to 4 inches long; rays slender, nearly smooth, 

 flexuous, mostly in pairs at the 4 or 5 nodes, spreading or horizontal, 2£ inches long 

 or less, bearing 1 to 3 spikelets near the extremities. 



Spikelets oblong, compressed, 3 to 4 Hues long, 3- to 5-flowered with a rudiment; 

 empty glumes ovate, acute or obtuse, smooth, the first 1-nerved, 1 to 1^ lines long, 

 the second 3-nervedand slightly longer than the first, but both shorter than the lower 

 florets; floral glume lance-ovate, obtuse and erose or nearly acute at the scarious 

 apex, minutely scabrid on the keel and nerves or throughout, not webbed, 5-nerved, 



2 lines long; palet oblong, bidentate or obtuse and erose, pubescent on the keels, 

 nearly as long as the glume. 



Plate LXXXII; a, spikelet; b, floret opened. 



Southern Oregon in the same locality as the species proper, which differs from 

 the variety in being smaller, except in the spikelets, and in the short, filiform radical 

 leaves, obtuse ligules, and more obtuse and coarsely erose glumes. Species described 

 in Bot. Gaz. vii. 32. 





