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Section 2. Hydropoa Dum. 



Spikelets more or less laterally compressed, ovate to oblong, usually 

 not more than 5 mm long; panicles open or condensed but not 

 long and narrow (except in G. melicaria). 



8. Glyceria pauci flora Presl. 

 Weak mannagrass. (Fig. 136.) 

 Culms 50 to 120 cm tall; sheaths 

 smooth or scaberulous; blades 

 thin, flat, lax, scaberulous, mostly 

 10 to 15 cm long, 5 to 15 mm 

 wide; panicle open or rather 

 dense, nodding, 10 to 20 cm long, 



Figure 135.— Distribution of 

 Glyceria occidentalis. 



the branches ascending or spread- 

 ing, rather flexuous, the spikelets 

 crowded on the upper half, the 

 lowermost usually 2 to 4; spike- 

 lets mostly 5- or 6-flowered, 4 

 to 5 mm long, often purplish; 

 glumes broadly ovate or oval, 

 about 1 and 1.5 mm long, the 



margins erose-scarious ; lemmas oblong, about 2 mm long, with 5 



prominent nerves and an outer short faint pair near the margins, 



scaberulous on the nerves and somewhat so between them, the tip 



rounded, scarious, somewhat erose. 



91 {Panicularia pauciflora Kuntze. ) — 



Shallow water, marshes and wet 



meadows, Alaska to South Dakota, 



Fiquke 134. — Glyceria occidentalis. Panicle 

 floret, X 10. (Type.) 



Figure 136.— Glyceria pauciflora. Panicle, X 1; 

 floret, X 10. (Sandberg, Heller, and Mc- 

 Dougal 636, Idaho.) 



Figure 137.— Distribution of 

 Glyceria pauciflora. 



south to California and New Mexico, 

 rising in the mountains to timber line 

 (fig. 137). 



9. Glyceria erecta Hitchc. (Fig. 

 138.) Differing from G. pauciflora 

 in the smaller size, mostly 30 to 40 cm tall, and in the narrow erect 

 panicles, 3 to 8 cm long, with ascending or appressed few-flowered 

 branches; lemmas about 3 mm long. % {Panicularia erecta 

 Hitchc.) — Springy or boggy places, mostly near or above timber line, 

 Crater Lake, Oreg., to Mount Whitney, Cajif., and Glenbrook, Nev. 

 Passes into the preceding species, of which it may be an alpine variety. 



