PIPEB NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF FE8TIH \. 



W U8Hi n<. pon ( lontinued. 



Rock Creek, Spokane County, Suksdorf 1141. 



Olympic Mountain-, Elmer 1917. 



Montesano, Heller 3932. 

 egon: 



\Vitl 1( .in locality, Hall 641. 



Portland, Howell L5. 



Wallowa Mountain-. Cusick 2211. 



Blue Mountains, S/irar L682, 1809, L676. 



C ILIFOBN] \ : 



Mendocino < kmnty, Davy 6607. 



Mount Shasta, Brown ."»7:;. 



Marin County, /W///< r 2044. 



Long Valley, Kellogg & Harford 111<>. 



Without locality, Bolander 6704. 



El Vulran. Brandegee 104. 

 Idaho: 



Cceur d'Alene Lake, Sandberg, Heller, <v- MacDougal 544. 



Cedar Mountain. Latah County, Piper 3930, 1917. 



Cedar Mountain. Latah County, Henderson 2835. 

 MoNTAN \: 



Summit, Griffiths & Lang< 209, L92. 

 Wyoming: 



NTez Perces Creek, Nelson »>21b\ 



Yellowstone Park, /»WA// L898. 

 Michigan: 



Keweenaw County, Farwell 531. 



Thunder Bay, Wheeler, July is. 1895. 



Explanation of Plate. — Drawn from 1908 /'/> r, Vancouver, Washington. Plant one-hall natural 

 size; ovary and Btigmas enlarged ten times, other details five times 



1~>. Festuca ovina L. 



F, riuca ovina L. Sp. PI. 1: 7:\. L753. "Habitat in Europae collibua apricis aridis 

 vulgatissimum." 



Festuca ovina vulgaris Koch. Syn. 2: s\'j. 1837. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Densely tufted: culms erect. 3-jointed, mostly L5 to 60 cm. high, smooth or some- 

 what scabrous near the panicle; sheath- smooth, shorter than the internodes; Ligule 

 very short, 1 nun. or less; blades pale green, strongly involute, firm, narrow, cylin- 

 dric, scabrous on the margins, the basal ones 5 to r_> em. Ion-, those of the culm 

 often very short; panicle contracted after blooming, commonly :i to iu cm. long; 

 rays ascending, scabrous on the angles; spikelets ovate or oblong, usually 5 to 7."> mm. 

 Long, 3 to ti or rarely 9-flowered, pale green, <>r sometimes purplish tinged; florets 

 rather close; joints of the rachilla smooth; glumes unequal, linear-lanceolate, acute. 

 the lower 1-nerved, ahout '1 mm. long, the upper 3-nerved, about 2.5 mm. long; 

 lemma lanceolate, thick and firm, convex, obscurely 5-nerved, smooth or more or 

 scabrous, 3 to 3.5 nun. long, attenuate in a scabrous awn 1 nun. long or more. 



This species in its typical form occurs native in North America in the Rocky 

 Mountains from Alberta t<> New Mexico, in the Black Hills, and ahout the Greal 

 Lakes. Through cultivation it i> more or less commonly introduced in many locali- 

 ties. The specimen referred by Heal. Grasses V Am. 2: 600, to /•'. hystr 

 true F. orina. 



