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Figure 294. — Neostapfia colusana. Plant, X J^ ; spikelet and floret, X 5. (Type.) 



Figure 295. — Orcuttia 

 greenei. Spikelet, X 5. 

 (Type.) 



Figure 296. — Orcuttia 

 californica. Panicle, 

 X 1; floret, X 5. 

 (Munz 10804, Calif.) 



erect, 5 to 12 cm. tall; leaves mostly 

 basal, the blades strongly nerved, 1 

 to 2 cm. long; raceme more than 



half the entire height of the plant, 

 the lower spikelets distant, the upper 

 approximate but not crowded; spike- 

 lets purple-tinged, 12 to 15 mm. long; 

 glumes and lemmas scabrous, some- 

 times with a few hairs toward the 

 base of the lemmas; glumes 3 to 4 

 mm. long, sharply toothed; lemmas 

 5 mm. long, 5-toothed, the teeth 

 acuminate, awn-tipped, the rigid tips 

 spreading or slightly recurved. O 

 — Beds of vernal pools, Shasta and 

 Tehama Counties, east of the Sacra- 

 mento River, Calif. 



4. Orcuttia pilosa Hoover. (Fig. 

 298.) Culms densely tufted, 5 to 20 

 cm. tall, erect or geniculate-decum- 

 bent at base, viscid at maturity; 

 sheaths and blades pilose or the 

 blades nearly glabrous beneath; ra- 

 cemes 5 to 10 cm. long; spikelets 10- 

 to 40-flowered, appressed or some- 

 what spreading, the upper crowded, 

 the lower approximate; glumes about 

 3 mm. long, irregularly 3-toothed; 



