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Festuca ovina ingrata (Fig. 11) 



The blue bunchgrass ranks in importance with Agropyron 

 spicatum on the well-developed high prairies west of the foothills 



Fig. 10. Agropyron spicatum growing on the rim-rock and securing its water 

 supply from the moist rock crevices of the broken basalt. 



of the Bitter-root Mountains between Spokane, Washington, 

 and Lewiston, Idaho. Because of its abundance (often 10-13 

 bunches per square meter), the very appropriate name Palouse 

 (Fr. Pelouse, a land clothed with a short, thick growth of herbage) 



