. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 84. GRASS FAMILY. 247. 3. Melica Ported Scribn. Small Melic- grass. Fig. 593. Melica mutica var. parvifiora Porter; Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colo. 149. 1874. Melica Porteri Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1885: 44. pi. 1. f. 17, 18. 188s. M. parvifiora Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club 5: so. 1894. Culms ii°-24° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths short,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 84. GRASS FAMILY. 247. 3. Melica Ported Scribn. Small Melic- grass. Fig. 593. Melica mutica var. parvifiora Porter; Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colo. 149. 1874. Melica Porteri Scribn. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1885: 44. pi. 1. f. 17, 18. 188s. M. parvifiora Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club 5: so. 1894. Culms ii°-24° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths short, overlapping, more or less rough; ligule 1" long; blades 5'-o long, i"-2" wide, rough; panicle 5-7' in length, contracted, the branches erect, the lower 1-2' long; spikelets few, 4-5-flowered, 5"-64" long, nodding, on somewhat flexuous strongly pubescent pedicels; lower scales obtuse or acutish, the first shorter than the second, which is much exceeded by the spikelet; flowering scales 3i"~4" long, acutish, scabrous. Cliffs and hillsides, Iowa to Missouri, Colorado, Ari- zona and Texas. 85. KORYCARPUS Zea, Act. Matrit. 1806. [Diarina Raf. Journ. Bot. 2: 169. 1809.] [Diarrhena Beauv. Agrost. 142. 1812.] Erect grasses, with long flat leaf-blades and narrow paniculate or racemose inflorescence. Spikelets 3-5-flowered, the rachilla readily disarticulating between the flowers. Upper scales empty, convolute. Two lower scales empty, the first narrow, 3-nerved, acute, the second broader, 5-nerved; flowering scales broader than the lower ones, acuminate or mucronate, rounded on the back, finally coriaceous and shining, 3-nerved. Palet 2-keeled. Stamens 2, rarely 1. Styles short, distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain beaked, free. [Greek, in allusion to the beaked grain.] Two known species, the following North American, the other Japanese. Type species: Kory- carpus arundinaceus Zea. i. Korycarpus arundinaceus Zea. American Kory- carpus. Fig. 594. Festuca d
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