. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 47 long, hirsute, tipped with a sliort, straight, scabrous awn to 3 cm. long. Palea a little shorter than its glume, obtuse or minutely bidentate, scabrous between the keels. This species has heretofore been referred to E. canadensis L., E. virginicus'L., E. striatus WiWd., and E. Mrsutiglumis Scribn. From the first it is distinguished by the thickened, hirsute, empty glumes; from E. mrginicus L. by its hirsute spike- lets and longer awns; from E. striafus Willd. by more robust culms and spikes and by the thickened 5-n
. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 47 long, hirsute, tipped with a sliort, straight, scabrous awn to 3 cm. long. Palea a little shorter than its glume, obtuse or minutely bidentate, scabrous between the keels. This species has heretofore been referred to E. canadensis L., E. virginicus'L., E. striatus WiWd., and E. Mrsutiglumis Scribn. From the first it is distinguished by the thickened, hirsute, empty glumes; from E. mrginicus L. by its hirsute spike- lets and longer awns; from E. striafus Willd. by more robust culms and spikes and by the thickened 5-nerved empty glumes, while it may be separated from E. hirsiUiglumis Scribn., its nearest ally, by its more robust spikes and longer glumes and awns. Type from Biltmore Herba- rium, No. 4116, collected on V)anks of streams at Biltmore, North Carolina, July 7, 1897. General distribution. --Moist woods and thickets from North Carolina and Flori- da west to Arkansas and Missouri. Specimens examined.—Flori- da: no locality, A. H. Curtiss, 1886. Alabama: Valley Head, 38 A. Ruth, July, 1898. Georgia: Au- gusta, 222 T. H. Kearney, jr., July, 1895; Luluh Falls, Lookout Mountain, 16 A. Ruth, 1898. Ark-an- nas: White River, near Batesville, F. \. Coville, August 2, 1887. ifissouri: St. Louis, 195 H. Eggert, July, 1879. Illinois: no locality, J. Wolf, 1882. EliYMUS BRACHYSTA- (Fig. 21.) (Elymus canadensis glabri- florns Vasey, Contr. V. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 550 (1894) (in part).) A low but rather stout peren- nial with bristly nodding spikes. Culms 3 to 9 dm. high, erect or somewhat geniculate at base, smooth, terete; nodes smooth; sheaths mostly shorter than the internodes, smooth, striate; ligule a short, entire ring, less than 1 mm. long; leaf-blades 1 to 2 dm. long, 6 to 11 mm. wide, acuminate, ascending, semi-involute, smooth or somewhat scabrous below, finely scabrous above and on the margins. Spike rather dense, 8 to 15 cm. long, long-exserted on a stout peduncle; rachis t
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