400 lower glomer; the white hairs of the glumes & callus. The short upper glumes and fuscellate awnes. Panic is within 1-2 pales case of foliage; the young plant has the leaves plane with ciliate margins; nodes glabrous or retroversely pubescent; glumes more or less colored; often deep purple; lower palea wholly, or little only below with white hairs; even when d, the naked portion tuberculo-sealvors. Stipus (sp. nov.) Panicule loose; rays few flowered; spiklets small; glumes nearly equal acuminate short cuspidate; median nerve membranaceous 1/4 longer than the flower. Lower palea convincious; Villous pubescent dorsally gibbous, upper palea equally or slightly exceeding the lower, strongly grooved on the back, indurated acute at the apex. Awns multivers. Own slender 5-12 lines long; Highly peniculate from the middle. New Mexico Wright, No 1997 [Col. 1857-62] & Bryelow, at the Copper Mines June (a starved state) & Aug; Hygeone Camp 19 [Duni Region] Culms 1-3 feet high, but peniculate below, nodes glabrous. Sheaths loose smooth, shorter than the internodes. Leaves flat [sometimes undulate] scaly on the margin, those of the culm about 2 miles in length. Branches of the cap panicles mostly in pairs or the lonemost in 2's or 3's; 2-4 flowered above the middle, minutely scalvors. Glumes ovate, acuminate, short cuspidate; 3-6 lines in length [the lower] & the upper & slightly shorter & nerved. Membranaceous or somewhat herbaceous at base, sometimes colored with age. Lower palea 2-4 lines long. Leon