28 CONTRIBUTIONS PROM nil NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



The following specimens belong here: 



l'i \n : 



Aquarius Plateau, /.. /•'. Ward 502, altitude 3,500 m. 

 Brigham Peak, ©5, altitude 3,700 m . 



Ajuzon \ : 



Mount Agassiz, Lemmon, September, 1884 



White Mountains, Griffiths 5338, 5243., 



Hart's Little Spring, Tourney, July 13, L892. 



mii Francisco Peaks, Leiberg 5957, altitude 2,800 m. 



Without locality, Rusby 901. 



( ILIFORN1 \: 



Plumas County. Lemmon 4653. 



I5i. Festuca ovina ingrata Hack. 



ca ovina ingrata Hack.: Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 598. 1896. Type specimen in 

 tin- National Herbarium, collected by Howell in Oregon. 



Festuca ovina columbiana Beal, op. cit. 599. Type in Herbarium Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, published as from Pullman, Washington, but really collected in the 

 Blue Mountains of Columbia County, Washington, by Lake and Hull. 



Festuca ovina oregona Hack.; Beal, op. cit. 599, not Festuca oregona Vasey. Type 

 in the National Herbarium, collected by Cusick in Oregon (no. 7 



Festuca idahoensis Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 36: 53. 1903. Type specimens from Smiths 

 Valley. Shoshone ( fcmnty, Idaho, collected by Abrams. We have examined a dupli- 

 cate in Elmer's herbarium. The leavt a of this specimen arc unusually smooth. 



This is the "blue bunch L r ras-" of stockmen, and is an important range grass. It 

 occurs from British Columbia and Alberta south to California and Colorado. 



It is the American analogue of the Old World Festuca ovina valesiaca (Schleich.) 

 Koch, and has sometimes been referred to the European /•'. ovina sulcata Hack. 



The following are representative collections: 



W tSHINGTON: 



Pullman, Elmer 299, 826. 

 Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 1142. 

 Clark Springs, Kreager 41, 'is. 



Mount ( arlton, Kreagt r 241. 

 Oregon: 



( iriz/.ly Butte, /.- ib( rg L'7C 



Without locality. Cusick 25<>7. 



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Plumas County, Lemmon 4653. 



Highland Springs, Davy o»;47. 

 Alberta: 



Sheep Mountain-, Macoun L3148. 

 British ( Iolumbia: 



I >«•< r Park, Macoun 52. 

 Mom \ n \ : 



Spanish Basin, Rydberg & Bessey3676. 



Lima. Rydberg 2070; Shear 320. 

 Idaho: 



Beaver Canyon, Rydberg 2061 ; Shear 305. 



Little Potlatch River, Sandberg, lI<U<r, >v- MacDougal 451. 



Viola, Sandberg, Heller, <v- MacDougal 504. 



Lake Waha. Heller 3318, 3288. 



