Skip to main content
Log in

Revision of Sitanion (Triticeae, Grameneae)

  • Published:
Brittonia Aims and scope Submit manuscript

An Erratum to this article was published on 01 January 1964

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Literature Cited

  • Axelrod, D. I. 1950. Studies in late Tertiary paleobotany. Carnegie Inst. Publ.590: 1–323.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bowden, W. M. 1962. Cytotaxonomy of the native and adventive species ofHordeum, Eremopyrum, Secale, Sitanion, andTriticum in Canada. Canad. Jour. Bot.40: 1675–1711.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Boyle, W. S. &Holmgren, A. H. 1955. A cytogenetic study of natural and controlled hybrids betweenAgropyron trachycaulum andHordeum jubatum. Genetics40: 539–545.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Brown, W. V. 1948. A cytological study in the Gramineae. Amer. Jour. Bot.35: 382–395.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brown, W. V. &Pratt, G. A. 1960. Hybridization and introgression in the grass genusElymus. Amer. Jour. Bot.47: 669–676.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chase, A. 1950. Hitchcock, A. S. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. U. S. Dept. Agr. Misc. Publ.200: 1–1051.

  • Church, G. L., 1954. Interspecific hybridization in easternElymus. Rhodora56: 185–197.

    Google Scholar 

  • —. 1958. Artificial hybrids ofElymus virginicus withE. canadensis, interruptus, riparius, andwiegandii. Amer. Jour. Bot.45: 410–417.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clausen, J., Keck, D. D., &Hiesey, W. M. 1940. Effect of varied environments on western North American plants. I. Carnegie Inst. Publ.520: i-vii, 1–452.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cook, C. W. &Harris, L. E. 1951. A comparison of the lignin ratio technique and the chromogen method of determining digestibility and forage consumption of desert range plants by sheep. Jour. Anim. Sci.10: 565–573.

    Google Scholar 

  • Covas, G. 1949. Taxonomic observations on the North American species ofHordeum. Madroño10: 1–21.

    Google Scholar 

  • Darlington, C. D. &Wylie, A. P. 1955. Chromosome atlas of flowering plants, ed. 2. London: Allen & Unwin. 519 p.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1935. Manual of the grasses of the United States. U. S. Dept. Agr. Misc. Publ.200: 1–1040.

    Google Scholar 

  • Piper, C. V. 1903. Four new species of grasses from Washington. Bull. Torrey Club30: 233–235.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pohl, R. W. 1959. Morphology and cytology of some hybrids betweenElymus canadensis andE. virginicus. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci.66: 155–159.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rafinesque, C. S. 1836. A life of travels. Reprinted in Chronica Botanica8: 294–360 (1944).

    Google Scholar 

  • Schultes, J. A. 1824. (Elymus sitanion). Roemer & Schultes, Systema Vegetabilium. Mantissa2: 426.

  • Smith, J. G. 1899. A synopsis of the genusSitanion. Bull. U. S. Div. Agrost.18: 3–21.

    Google Scholar 

  • Snyder, L. A. 1951. Cytology of interstrain hybrids and the probable origin of variability inElymus glaucus. Amer. Jour. Bot.38: 195–202.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stebbins, G. L. Jr. 1950. Variation and evolution in plants. New York: Columbia Univ. Press xx, 643 p.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stebbins, G. L. Jr., &Love, R. M. 1941. A eytological study of California forage grasses. Amer. Jour. Bot.28: 371–382.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stebbins, G. L. Jr., &Snyder, L. A. 1956. Artificial and natural hybrids in the Gramineae, tribe Hordeae. IX. Hybrids between western North American and eastern North American species. Amer. Jour. Bot.43: 305–312.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stebbins, G. L., Jr.,Valencia, J. E., &Valencia, R. M. 1946. Artificial and natural hybrids in the Gramineae, tribe Hordeae. I.Elymus, Sitanion, andAgropyron. Amer. Jour. Bot.33: 338–351.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stebbins, G. L. Jr., &Vaarama, A. 1954. Artificial and natural hybrids in the Gramineae, tribe Hordeae. VII. Hybrids and allopolyploids betweenElymus glaucus andSitanion spp. Genetics39: 378–395.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Wilson, F. D. 1953. A study of genetic variability in squirreltail grass,Sitanion hystrix. Thesis (M. S.). Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Utah. 101 p., illus.

  • -. 1957. A cytotaxonomic study of the genusSitanion (Gramineae). Thesis (Ph.D.). Dept. of Botany, Washington State Univ. 193 p., illus.

  • Witte, P. 1956. A cytotaxonomic study of suspected hybrids betweenAgropyron subsecundum andSitanion hystrix. Thesis (M.S.). Dept. of Botany, Utah State Univ.27 p., illus.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Additional information

Based on a dissertation submitted to the Graduate Committee of Washington State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Part of the cost of publication was defrayed by National Science Foundation Grant GN-39.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02909606.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Wilson, F.D. Revision of Sitanion (Triticeae, Grameneae). Brittonia 15, 303–323 (1963). https://doi.org/10.2307/2805379

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2805379

Keywords

Navigation