40 CONTRIBl riONS FROM 1111 NATIONAL in 1:1: \i;ir\i. 



slender, nexuoua, angled, scabrous, few-branched atove the middle; Bpikelets pale 

 green, sometimes purplish-tinged, oblong-lanceolate. 3 to 5-flowered, 7 to 12 nun. 

 long; joints of the rachilla cylindric, usually curved, scabrous, 1 to 2 nun. long; 

 glumes Bubulate, glabrous, the lower I -nerved, 2 to 3 mm. long, the upper 3-n< 

 3 to I nun. long, each Bparsely Bcabrous near the apex; lemma crreen, membranace- 

 ous, narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved, somewhat keeled for its whole length, scabrous 

 toward the apex, •"> to 7 nun. long, attenuate into a scabrous Blender awn. ."> t<> l'u nun. 

 long; pal. -a a- long as the lemma or slightly longer, lanceolate, acute, tin- inflexed 

 Bides one-third as broad as the internerve, the nerves scabrous. 



The species ranges from southeastern Alaska to northern California, and in the 

 Rocky Mountains to Wyoming and Utah. 



The following collections art- representative: 



A i a-k \ : 



Foggy Bay, OovilL <& Kearney 2672. 



Howkan, Eram 120. 



Cape Fox, /.. ./. Cole, .Inly 26, 1899. 

 Bri risH ( 'oli mbia: 



Queeu Charlotte Island, Newcombe, July 24, L8 



Agassiz, Macoun s ^. 



Chilliwack Valley, Macoun 26113. 



W ASHING TON : 



Klickitat County, Suksdorf 170. 

 Seattle, Piper 938, 957. 

 Clallam County. Elmer L918, 1916. 

 Blue Mountains, Horm r 559. 

 Clark Springs, Spokane County. KreagerZ&. 

 < >i:i:-.o\: 



Wallowa .Mountains, Cusick 2507. 

 Eagle Creek, Cusick 2434. 



( IaLIFORN] \ : 



Moulton. Warner Mountains, Griffiths^ Hunter 473. 

 Idaho: 



Lake Coeur d'Alene, Sandberg, Heller, & MacDougal 542. 

 Wyoming: 



Welcome, Williams 2685. 



I ' i aii: 



< tgden, Tracy 363. 

 Mo\i \\ \: 



Bozeman, Shi or 465. 



Columbia Falls, Blankinship L042. 



Subgenus III. Hesperochloa subgen. nov. 



Perennials, densely tufted, but producing occasional stout extravaginal stolons, 

 stigmas elongate, the numerous short branches arising from all Bides, Bimpleorbut 

 little dentate; ovary deeply sulcate near the apex anteriorly. Bparsely hispidulons 

 above; caryopsis beaked and bidentate at apex; hilum linear. 



34. Festuca confinis Vasey. 



/■ ' kingii Wats. Bot. KinL r . Explor. 887. 1871. Type in the National Herbarium, 

 collected by Watson in the East Humboldt .Mountains. Nevada, July, 1868, altitude, 

 8,1 (i i feet 



