San Diego California, Barry. Shasta & Rogue Rives Valley, Dr Hulse; Benicia Cowl foria, Bicklow; Sacramento Valley, Hartney (Nov 20). Heas, Wright, Drummond & Lindheimer. The specimens above quoted seem to be all forms of one species sufficiently distinguished from S. avenacea by the long & mostly colored glumes the white hairs of the lower palea and callus, the short upper palea and burrillate awns. Leaves long variable in width & pubescence; in the young plant the leaves have strongly ciliate margins; nodes glabrous or retrorsely pubescent; glumes more or less colored, often deep purple; lower palea entire, or the lower portion only, clothed with white hairs even when mature; the naked portion triteraclose scabrous. S. setigera of Presl. is and older name than the one we have retained and if his plant and S. Mexicana Trin. be the same as quoted by Munro, should be preferred but as Munro considers that the same, should be preferred, but the latter author author says of Hartney's plant "verosimilitud varietas" S. tricolor Vale," and as it is not improbable that ours will prove to be that species we to avoid confusion retain the name adopted in H. Hartney