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GRAMINEiE. 



2. E. condensatus Presl. California Wild-rye. Kootstock 

 stout, creeping and stoloniferous; stems stout, erect, 3 to 6 ft. high; 

 sheaths smooth; "ligule about 1 line long, rounded, fimbrillate; blades 

 about 12 in. long, 4 to 5 lines wide, flat with more or less involute 

 edges below, long-acuminate, smooth below, scabrous above; spike 5 

 to 8 in. long, compact, erect; rachis scabrous on the narrow wings; 

 spikelets imbricate, appressed, in pairs, threes, or rarely more, when 

 more than three then sometimes 1 or 2 are pedicellate, | to f in. long, 

 somewhat turgid, 4 to 5-flowered; bracts subulate, rather shorter than 

 the nearest bractlet, scabrid, about 6 lines long; bractlet scabrid at the 

 apex, pulverulent below, more or less shining; lowest about 5£ lines 

 long, including the very short point, less than 1£ lines wide, 7-nerved; 

 palea lines long; keels glabrous below, scabrous and ciliate above; 

 anthers 2 to 1\ lines long; scales about f line long, ovate, ciliate. 



Moist places among the hills of the Coast Ranges; not uncommon 

 within our limits: along the lower Sacramento River, Jepson; Oakland 

 Marshes, Bolander; Port Costa; Berkeley Hills; near Petaluma. Apr.- 

 Sept. Type locality, Monterey, Hce/ike, 1791. 



3. E. triticoides Buckl. Slender Wild-rye. Usually glau- 

 cous throughout; rootstock slender, creeping; stems slender or 

 stoutish, erect, 2 to 3£ ft. high; sheaths smooth; ligule reduced to a 

 narrow, truncate, fimbrillate ring; blades 6 to 12 in. long, 3£ lines 

 wide, flat or involute, scabrous on the margins and nerves especially 

 above; spike about 6 in. long, erect, somewhat lax; rachis with a 

 narrow, ciliate wing, puberulent; spikelets distant above and below, 

 overlapping in the middle, somewhat divergent, in pairs or threes 

 below, solitary above, ^ to f in. long, turgid, 4 to 6-flo\vered; bracts 

 sub-equal, 5 to 7 lines long, longer than, or equaling the nearest 

 bractlet, acuminately subulate, scabrous on the nerves above; bractlets 



3 to 5 lines long including the point, 1J lines wide, 9-nerved, gla- 

 brous; palea 3| to 4 lines long, scabrous on the keels; anthers 2J lines 

 long. 



Apparently preferring bottom lands in the warmer valleys, some- 

 times in alkaline soils: Little Oak, Jepson; San Jose; Princeton. 

 May- June. 



4. E. pubescens Davy, sp. nov. Pubescent Wild-rye. Erect 

 perennial; rootstock stoloniferous; stems 2 to 3 ft. high, erect, slender, 

 scabrid; sheaths densely retrorsely pubescent; ligule reduced to a 

 truncate ring about £ line long, fimbrillate in young leaves; blades 3 to 

 6.] in. long, 2 to 3 lines wide, flat, auricled at base; spike 3 in. long; 

 rachis with a narrow, ciliate wing; spikelets in pairs or often solitary, 



4 to 5 lines long, few-flowered; bracts broadly linear-lanceolate, 5 

 lines long, about 1 line wide, scabrid; lowest bractlet 4£ lines long, 

 scabrid; awn scabrid, 1^ lines long; palea 3^ to 4 lines long; anthers 

 1 line long; scales less than \ line long. 



Type locality: Point Eeyes, in a swale facing the ocean; apparently 

 rare. July. 



5. E. glaucus Buckl. Glaucous Wild-rye. Erect perennial; 

 rootstock stoloniferous; stems tufted, erect from a more or less arcuate 



