. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 472 high. Chihiis solid, scabrid, nodes sniootli or sparingly pubescent. Shoatlis mostly longer than the internodes; ligule truncate, eiliute, 1 mm. long; leaves of sterile shoots erect, slender, often breaking at the top of the sheath, those of the culm 4 in number, blades rigid, scabrid, involute, pungehc-pointed. 20-30 cm. long, less than 1 mm. diam. Panicle
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 472 high. Chihiis solid, scabrid, nodes sniootli or sparingly pubescent. Shoatlis mostly longer than the internodes; ligule truncate, eiliute, 1 mm. long; leaves of sterile shoots erect, slender, often breaking at the top of the sheath, those of the culm 4 in number, blades rigid, scabrid, involute, pungehc-pointed. 20-30 cm. long, less than 1 mm. diam. Panicle slendi.'r, erect, s])ikelike, interrupted, 10-20 cm. long. Spikelets linear, purplish, I'.early terete, 0-11-flowered, 12-17 mm. long; empty glumes linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved. first ().5 mm. long, second mm. long; floral glume linear or oval, enuirginate, awnless. pubescent on the nerves, mm. long; palea elliptical, pubescent on the keels, ; mm. long. Texas, Ncrerrfinn for V. 8. Dept. Agricul. 2:5!): Arizona, Priiiglc'm 1882: Mexico (Chihualuia), Pn'>i(jlc iOb, Pahiier 2'ZW. Texas to Arizona and ^lexico. 108. (2Gla). RedFIELDIA Vasey, Bull. Torr. Club, 14:133 (1887). Spikelets 3-5-flowercd, pedicellate in a lax si)reading panicle half or more than half the length of the culm, raciiilhi sliort. ar- ticulate under the floral glumes, beset with white hairs. Empty ghuues about half as long as thespikelet. ovate-laiu'colate, l-nerved; floral glume com})ressed, rather rigid, ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, the mid-nerve curved, the lateral nerves i)romini'nt and midway lo the margin, base more or loss pubescent: palea equalling or longer than its glume, of nearly the same texture, folded lengthwise in the middle and with two ])rominent keels folded in the o})posite di- rection. I>r. Yasey believes it nearest allied to Fes- tuca, from which it differs in having the flowers crowded on the rachilla, in the 1- nerved emptv glumes, in the pointed orconi-
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