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Section 1. Bromelica Thurb. 



Spikelets narrow; glumes usually nar- 

 row, scarious-margined (papery 

 in M. geyeri); sterile lemmas 

 similar to the acute (obtuse in 

 M. harfordii) or awned fertile 

 lemmas. 

 1. Melica smithii (Porter) Vasey. 

 Smith melic. (Fig. 255.) Culms slen- 

 der, 60 to 120 cm. tall; sheaths 

 retrorsely scabrous; blades lax, sca- 

 brous, 10 to 20 cm. long, 6 to 12 

 mm. wide; panicle 12 to 25 cm. long, 

 the branches solitary, distant, spread- 

 ing, naked below, sometimes reflexed, 

 as much as 10 cm. long; spikelets 3- 

 to 6-flowered, 18 to 20 mm. long, 



sometimes purplish; glumes acute; 

 lemmas about 10 mm. long, with an 

 awn 3 to 5 mm. long. % (Avena 

 smithii Porter.) — Moist woodlands, 

 western Ontario and northern Michi- 

 gan to British Columbia, south to 



Figure 254.— Neyraudia reynaudiana. Panicle, X 1; spikelet, X 5; floret, X 10. (Moldenke 432, Fla.) 



