. 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. FESTICKiE. 507 flexuose, single or in pairs, sometimes in tlirees, the longest ;}-4 cm. long, beiiring 2â4 spikelets. Spikt'lots 3-8-ll(>\vc'red, joint of racliillii mm. long; empty glumes ovate, ol)tuse, or acute witli transverse nerves near tlie middle, first glume 3-nerved, 4-5 mm. long, second r)-nerved, 5-G mm. long; floral glume 7-8 mm. long, abruptly tap
. 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. FESTICKiE. 507 flexuose, single or in pairs, sometimes in tlirees, the longest ;}-4 cm. long, beiiring 2â4 spikelets. Spikt'lots 3-8-ll(>\vc'red, joint of racliillii mm. long; empty glumes ovate, ol)tuse, or acute witli transverse nerves near tlie middle, first glume 3-nerved, 4-5 mm. long, second r)-nerved, 5-G mm. long; floral glume 7-8 mm. long, abruptly tapering, oval, the apex with 2 very short teeth or a notch, 7-9-nerved, with cross nerves; ])alea elliptical, 5 mm. long. Professor Scribner says: "This grass has l)een referred to Oeyer's M. hulhosa by authors, but aside from its affecting higher elevations, it is readily distinguished from that s})ecies by its usu- ally taller and more , by its more open and nodding panicle, by the more slender and flexuose pedicels, by its shorter empty glumes, and by its broader flowering glumes, which taper abruptly to a rounded and usually two-lobed ; Montana, Anderson, Wil/idinsj Oregon, Cuskk 851. Montana, Oregon, and California. 16. M. Californica Scribn. Proc Phila. Acad. 4(j (1885). M. po(Poi(les Tow. Pac. 1{. Kei). 4: 15? (185T), not Xutt. J/, biilbosa Thurb. S. Wats. liot. Calif. 2:304 (1880), not Ceyer (1850). Culms slender, 30-80 cm. high, with corms and \voolly-i>ubes- cent roots. Leaves 4-5 in number, sheaths shorter than tho inter- nodes, scabrous, ligule 3 mm. long, brown and pubes- cent below; l)lades iirm, scabrous, involute. 8-12 cm. long, 2-3 nun. wide. I'aniele 10-15 cm. long', spikelike, interrupted ])elow. rays mostly in jtairs, the longest 3-4 cm. long. Spikelets scabrid. 2-3- llowered on erect stout pedicels, joint of rachilla 2 mm. long, first empty glume ovate, ;'.-5-nerved, al)Out G mm. long, second elliptical. 5-l-nervod, al)ou
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