MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 



cumbent below, 60 to 100 cm. tall; 

 sheaths scabrous to pubescent ; blades 

 3 to 5 mm. wide, more or less pubes- 

 cent; panicle narrow, 10 to 15 cm. 

 long, the branches short, mostly ap- 

 pressed or ascending; spikelets, ex- 

 cluding awns, about 15 mm. long; 

 glumes 10 to 12 mm. long; lemmas 

 7-nerved, scabrous, awned, the awn 

 6 to 10 mm. long. % — Dry woods, 

 meadows, and open slopes, Montana 

 and Washington to the central Sierras 

 of California. 



3. Melica harfordii Boland. Har- 

 ford melic. (Fig. 257.) Culms tufted, 



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Figure 257. — Melica harfordii. Panicle, X 1; floret, 

 X 5. (Yates 457, Oalif.) 



60 to 120 cm. tall, often decumbent 

 below; sheaths scabrous to villous; 

 blades scabrous, firm, flat to sub- 

 involute, 1 to 4 mm. wide; panicle 

 narrow, 10 to 15 cm. long, the 



Figure 258. — Melica subulata. Panicle, X 1 ; floret, 

 X 5. (Hitchcock 11631, Wash.) 



branches appressed; spikelets 1 to 1.5 

 cm. long, short-pediceled ; glumes 7 

 to 9 mm. long, obtuse; lemmas rather 

 faintly 7-nerved, hispidulous below, 

 pilose on the lower part of the margin, 

 the apex emarginate, mucronate, or 

 with an awn less than 2 mm. long. 

 % — Open dry woods and slopes, 

 British Columbia to the Cascade 

 Mountains of Oregon, south to Mon- 

 terey County and Yosemite National 

 Park, Calif. A smaller form with 

 narrow involute blades has been 

 segregated as M. harfordii var. minor 

 Vasey. 



4. Melica subulata (Griseb.) 

 Scribn. Alaska oniongrass. (Fig. 

 258.) Culms 60 to 125 cm. tall, mostly 

 bulbous at base; sheaths retrorsely 

 scabrous, often pilose; blades thin, 



