SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
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ALOPECURUS ALPINUS (Sm.). 
Culm erect, smooth, over 1 foot high; nodes brown; 
leaves lanceolate, smooth; the upper sheath inflated; 
ligule elongated; flowers in a dense, cylindrical, soft 
spike; outer glumes strongly three-nerved, acute, densely 
silky, villous; flowering glume equals the outer one; awn 
nearly straight, exserted. 
In moist soils only, and at high elevations. 
MELICA SPECTABILE (Scribner). 
Stems slender, bulbous at base, about 2 feet high, few 
leaved; leaves linear, smooth; panicle slender, nodding, 
few r -flowered; branches distant, spreading, flexuous, rough ; 
outer glumes unequal, scarious, the lower three-nerved, 
the upper five-brownish-nerved ; flowering glume about 
nine-nerved, thin, with a broadly scarious, acuminate 
apex; palet shorter than its glume, two-toothed and pur¬ 
plish tipped. 
This grass was seen only on the Gore Pass, at 
11,000 feet, in the shade of pines. It has, probably, no 
agricultural value. 
GRAPHEPHORUM WOLFII (Vasey). 
A tufted perennial grass with culms densely pubes¬ 
cent, 1° or more high ; leaves somewhat scabrous ; panicle 
spicate, purplish when young; spikelets two-flowered, 
with a rudiment of a third; glumes with scabrous mar¬ 
gins, the outer ones unequal, acuminate, keeled, obscurely 
one to three-nerved at base; flowering glume being at the 
base, obscurely nerved, two-toothed at apex. 
This grass from a high altitude. 
