NTRIBUTION8 PROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



( " m tPORKi i—4 Continued. 



Stanford University, Abranu 1646. 



With. -ut locality, Kellogg A Harford 1116.* 



3 inta < ru/. . I/"/' non in 1 ss 7 



Santa ( 'ru/. .I//'/- rso»i in l vv - 



- n Francisco, Boland* r 1507. 



Oakland, Bolander, June 1. 1866. 



Templeton, San Luis Obispo County, Dary 7584. 



Lake County, Blankinship s . 



Marysville Buttes, fftffer 5562. 



Eight Dollar Mountain, Josephine County, Piper 3512. 

 The specimens marked with an asterisk were cited by Doctor Vasey under the orig- 

 inal description of Festuca ambigua, but the real type of that is a very different plant. 



Expi \n\i Drawn from type specimen 2101 Elmer, collected at Stanford Univer- 



sity, California, riant one-half natural Bize; ]>;in- enlarged five diameters, except the ovary, which 

 i- enlarged ten diameters. 



■ !<ia. Festuca elmeri luxurians nom. nov. 



Festuca jonesii conferta Hack.: Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 593. 1896. The type was 

 in the herbarium of Professor Scribner, Bince destroyed by fire. A duplicate is in 

 the National Herbarium. It i> from San Jose* Normal School, ( Salifornia, the collector 

 unknown. 



Typical Festuca elmeri has a very Loose panicle and .'! or 4-flowered Bpikelets. The 

 Bubspecies has a rather close panicle and 5 or6-flowered Bpikelets. The following 

 specimens are in the National Herbarium. 

 ( ' ilifornia: 



Stanford University, Elmer 2133, 2103. 

 Without Locality, Boland* r 6 

 Without locality, Lemmon 4654. 

 The name conferta has been previously used as Festuca arundinacea conferta Hack. 

 Mon. Fest. L57. L882. 



31. Festuca g-igantea I L. Vill. 



Bromus giganteus L. 8p. PI. 1: 77. 1753. "Habitat in Europae sylvis siccis." 



ca gigantea Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2: 110. 1787. Transfers the Bpecies to 

 Festuca. 

 This European Bpecies is sparingly introduced in the Eastern States. 



DESCRIPTION. 



stem,- erect, Btriate, glabrous, 3 to 5-jointed, usually nearly concealed by the .-heaths. 

 60 to L20cm. high; Bheaths smooth orsomewhal Bcabrous; ligule very short, truncate: 

 blades flat, linear-lanceolate, 12 to 40 cm. long, 5 to 15 mm. broad, acute, prominently 

 auriculate at has.-. dark green and smooth beneath, paler and slightly roughened 

 above, very scabrous on the margins; panicle oblong-ovoid, L0 to 40 cm. long, at 

 length spreading, somewhat drooping; rays Blender, mostly in twos, elongate, verj 

 scabrous on the angles, each pulvillateat base; Bpikelets pale green, oblong-lanceolate, 

 10 to l."» mm. Long, 5 to 9-flowered; joints of the rachilla cylindric, scabrous; glumes 

 very acute, glabrous, the lower l-nerved, 5 to 6 mm long, the upper 3-nerved, 6 to 

 7.5 mm. long, broadly hyaline-margined; lemma lanceolate, convex. 5-n< 

 Bparsely scabrous, especially on the nerves above, 7 to 9 mm. long, bidentate at the 

 Bcarious apex, bearings scabrous awn more than twice as long as itself; palea oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or somewhat notched at the apex, the nerves scabrous, the inflexed 

 sides half as broad as the internerve. 



