2e Festuca Le Fescue. 
Annuals or perennials with narrowg or open panicles; spikelets few to 
several flowered, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between 
the florets; glumes unequal, lanceolate or acuminate; lemmas acuminate, rounded 
on the back, membranaceous or somewhat indurate, awned from the tip or sometimes 
awnlesSe 
oO Plants annual 
2 Spikelets densely 5-13 flowered 
2, Spikelets 3-5 flowered, the florets rather distant 
O Plants perennial 
2 Blades relatively broad and flat 
4 Lemmas awnless 
4 Lemmas avmed, the awn 7-10 mm. long, ,flexuous 
@ Blades mostly very narrow, involute or folded 
4 Culms ascending from a decumbent or creeping, red and 
@ fibrous bases3 blades smooth 
4 Culms tufted, erect; blades smooth or scabrous 
- Lemmas mucronate or short awned 
& First glume 2-6 mm. long; blades smooth 
& First glume 6-7 mne long; blades scabrous 
(, Lemmas long awned 
Avns slender and flexuous, mostly 7-8 mm. long; 
j2, blades smooth and soft 
§ sms straight, 2-5 mn. long; blades harsh, 
Ja distinctly scabrous 
l. 
Fe 
octoflora 
F. 
pacifica 
Fe 
elatior 
subulata 
5e 
Fe 
rubra _ 
Fe 
viridula 
Te 
scabrella 
Be 
occidentalis 
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idahoensis 
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