Studies on American Grasses Volume 11 (Paperback)

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. 1898 Excerpt: ...and small spikelets. The Missouri plant approaches C. canadensis in its somewhat larger spikelets, looser panicles, and laxer habit, b. Panicle more or less contracted. "Leaf-blades flat or nearly so, panicle not spiciform. tProlongation of rachilla bearded its whole length, caryopsis glabrous. XCallus-hairs copious, two-thirds as long as to longer than the flowering glume. 26. Calamagrostis scribneri Beal, Grasses N. Am., 2: 343 (1896). Deyeuxia dubia Scribn.; Coult., Bot. Gaz. 11: 70 (1886). Calamagrostis dubia Scribn.; Vasey, Monog. Grasses U. S., Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 3: 80 (1892). C. canadensis dubia Vasey, 1. c. Montana and Yellowstone Park to British Columbia and Washington. Type specimen collected along Slough Creek, Yellowstone Park, altitude 2,034 meters, by F. Tweedy (585), 1885. Specimens Examined.--Montana: Belt Mountains, (R. S. Williams 551), 1886; Fort Logan, altitude 1,520 meters, (Scribner 365), 1883; (Knowlton) 1887; Spanish Creek, altitude 1,824 meters, (Rydberg 3083, 3096, 3100; T. A. Williams 2009), 1896; East Gallatin Swamps, altitude 1,520 meters, (Rydberg 3203), 1896; Spanish Creek Basin, altitude 2,432 meters, (T. A.Williams 2057), 1896. Wyoming: Yellowstone Park, (Tweedy 585), 1885. Colorado: (Wolf 664) 1873; (Letterman 44, 45), 1885. Alberta: Devils Head Lake near Banff, altitude 1,426 meters, (Macoun 23), 1891. British Columbia: Kicking Horse Lake, altitude 1,520 meters, (Macoun 20b), 1890. Washington: Mount Adams, altitude 1,520 to 1,824 meters, (Suksdorf 145), 1885; Ckiquash Mountaius, Skamania County, (Suksdorf 1023), 1890. Related to C. canadensis and C. langsdorffii, differing from both in its stricter habit, culms rarely branching from the upper nodes, sheaths almost always bearded at junction with the blade, upper leaf...