This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...1884, are identical. Specimens collected on Unimak Island, Alaska, by Macoun (22801) are taller and agree with r the ordinary European plant. 14. Festuca occidentalis Hook. Festuca occideutalis Hook. El. Bor. Am. 2: 249. 1840. "Plains and elevated grounds of the Columbia near the sea. Dr. Scouler. Douglas." Authentic ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...1884, are identical. Specimens collected on Unimak Island, Alaska, by Macoun (22801) are taller and agree with r the ordinary European plant. 14. Festuca occidentalis Hook. Festuca occideutalis Hook. El. Bor. Am. 2: 249. 1840. "Plains and elevated grounds of the Columbia near the sea. Dr. Scouler. Douglas." Authentic specimens from Hooker are in the Gray Herbarium. Festuca, ovina polyphylla Vasey; Beal, Grasses N. A. 2: 597. 1896. Type specimen in herbarium Michigan Agricultural College, collected in the Cascade Mountains, Oregon, by Howell, in 1885. DESCRIPTION. Densely tufted and perfectly glabrous up to the inflorescence; culms slender, shining, 50 to 80 cm. high, 2-jointed; leaf blades filiform-involute, numerous, bright green, soft, becoming longitudinally sulcata when dry, 5 to 20 cm. long, acute at the very apex; ligule very small, truncate; sheaths smooth, very long, but shorter than the internodes, in young plants often wholly concealing the stem; panicle loose, subsecund, flexuous, 8 to 20 cm. long, often somewhat drooping above; rays scabrous on the sharp angles, solitary or the lowest paired and very unequal; spikelets green, oblong, loosely 3 to 5-flowered, 6 to 10 mm. long, mostly on slender stalks, pale green, or rarely purplish; glumes unequal, variable, even on the same plant, usually sharply acute or acuminate, sometimes obtuse or obtusish, the lower 1-nerved, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, the upper 3-nerved, about one-half longer, both usually puberulent near the apex and margins; lemma oblong-lanceolate, rather thin in texture, 5 to 6.5 mm. long, scaberulous toward the apex, attenuate into a slender awn about as long; palea linear-lanceolate, acutish, scabrous on the nerves, the inflexed sides meeting in the middle when flattened; ovary h...
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