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pubescent over the back; awn 5 to 7 mm long. % —Open woods, 

 Washington to California; Arizona (Huachuca Mountains). 



Bromus orcuttiaxus var. hallii Hitchc. Blades soft-pubescent 

 on both surfaces; glumes and lemmas pubescent. 21 — Dry, mostly- 

 wooded ridges and slopes, 1,500 to 3,000 m elevation, California. 



Figure 1 

 Bromus suksdor- 

 fiiXl. (Type.) 



Figure 17— Bromus orcuttianus, X 1. (Type.) 



11. Bromus grandis (Shear) Hitchc. (Fig. 18.) Culms 1 to 

 1.5 m tall; sheaths softly retrorsely pubescent; blades elongate, 

 rather lax, spreading, densely short-pubescent on both surfaces; 

 panicle 15 to 20 cm long, broad, open, the branches slender, drooping, 

 naked below, the lower usually in pairs, as much as 15 cm long; spike- 

 lets 2 to 2.5 cm long, on subflexuous pedicels; first glume usually 



