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1e F. octoflora Walt. >Culms slender, often filiform, 10-30 cm. 
tall; sheaths smooth; blades smooth and soft, filiform, as much as 5 cm. long; 
panicles long-exserted, rather dense, the branches very short and appressed, 
bearing 1-5 spikelets; spikelets densely 5-13 flowered; glumes lanceolate or 
acuminate, the first l-nerved, 5 mm. long, the second a little wider, 3-nerved, 
4 mme long; lemmas lanceolate, smooth or somewhat scabrous, 4-5 mm. long, tapering 
into slender awns 3-5 mm. long. 
Moist river bank and sandy places. Scarce in our region on the banks of 
the Clearwater Re Lewiston, Sandberg et ale 290¢ 
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2- Fe pacifica Piper. Culms in smal! tufts, slender, erect or somewhat 
spreading at the base, 10-30 om. tall; sheaths smooth; blades smooth, filiform 
or very narrow, 1-5 cm. long; panicles rather flexuous, 5=10 cm. long, the branches 
stiffly, often horizontally spreading; spikelets appressed on the short branches, 
5-5 flowered, the florets not crowded; glumes smooth, lanceolate, very narrow, 
subulate-pointed, the first l-nerved, 4-6 mn. long, the second 3=nerved, 6-7 mme 
long; lemmas smooth or scabrous, lanceolate, tapering into a slender awn 8-10 mm. 
long; palea often exceeding the body of the lemma. 
Drv rocky slopes and open placese liear Santianne Divide, 3200 ft.; valley 
of Clearwater Re3 Lewiston, 1500-2000 ft», 3000 ft. 
5. F. elatior L. Meadow Fescue. ———sfulms erect or decumbent at the base, 
40-100 em. tall; sheaths smooth; blades abrous above, smooth or scabrous 
below, 10-20 cm. long, as much as 8 Mie, usually 4-5 mm. wide; panicles narrow, 
erect or somewhat nodding, 10-20 cm. long, the branches erect or narrowly ascending, 
sometimes flexuous; spikelets short-pediceled, usually appressed, 5-10 flowered, 
10-20 mn. long; glumes smooth, the margins hyaline, the first 1-3 nerved, 3-4 m. 
long; the second 5-5 nerved, 4-7 mme long; lemmas smoothyacuminate, 6-8 mm. long, 
hyaline at the summit, awnless; palea equaling the lemma. 
<ntroduced from Burasia as a meadow grass; often escaped in waste places, 
Cocur d'Alene, Rust in 1913. 
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