. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 88 lower 5-6 mm. Ion?, upper 6-7 mm. long, slightly broader; flowering glume subacute, 9-11 miti. lonrj, softly pubescent over the had; 5-7-nerve(l, only 3 nerves very distinct, hyaline at the apex and emarginate, awn 2-3 mm. long; palea puberulent, nearly equaling its glume. Type collected by J. G. Smith at Mangos, New Mexico, August 19,1897. Specimens ex.\mixed.âXen' Mexico: Mangos Canyon (J. G. Smith, Sept. 21, 1896); (0. Metcalfe, Sept. 20, 1897); Saddle Rock Canyon, Grant County, alt. 2,170 meters (J. G. Smith, Sejit.
. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 88 lower 5-6 mm. Ion?, upper 6-7 mm. long, slightly broader; flowering glume subacute, 9-11 miti. lonrj, softly pubescent over the had; 5-7-nerve(l, only 3 nerves very distinct, hyaline at the apex and emarginate, awn 2-3 mm. long; palea puberulent, nearly equaling its glume. Type collected by J. G. Smith at Mangos, New Mexico, August 19,1897. Specimens ex.\mixed.âXen' Mexico: Mangos Canyon (J. G. Smith, Sept. 21, 1896); (0. Metcalfe, Sept. 20, 1897); Saddle Rock Canyon, Grant County, alt. 2,170 meters (J. G. Smith, Sejit. 2-1, 1896). Base of San Luis Mountains, International Boundary Collection (E. A. Mearns 2146).- This plant, whose favorite hab- itat seems to be among cliffs in canyons, may prove on further held study to be found worthy of specific rank. The herbarium specimens differ from the species in their very weak, leafy culms, rather nar- rowerandlessdensely flow- ered spikelets with the empty glumes smooth. 20. BROMUS PACIFICUS n. sp. (Fig. 21.) A stout, nearly erect perennial dm. high. Culm leafy, pubescent at the nodes. Sheaths mostly sparsely retrorsely-pilose; ligule 3-4 mm. long, round- ed above, somewhat lace- rate dentate; UaiJett hroadlt/ linear-lanceolate, dm. long, 8-11 mm. broad, sparsely coarse-pilose above, scabrous beneath. Panicle rather large, dense, droop- ing; lower branches se- cund, 3-5. SpiMets cm. long, 5-6 mm. vide, 7-11-flowered, coarsely pu- bescent tJiroughout; empty glumes acute, the lower rather narrow, 1-nerved or rarely with two short faint lateral nerves, 6-7 mm. long, the upper broader, 3-5-nerved, mostly inequilateral at the apex anil mwronate, 8-9 mm. long; flowering glume inconspicuously 7-nerved, broadly lanceolate, subobtuse, emarginate, 11-12 mm. long, pubescence somewhat denser and somewhat pilose on the lower margins and base, with a, straigld «»â /( -^-6" nun. long; palea about equaling its glume. Type No. 1703,
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