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Festuceae 



Festuca 



o 5o 



Map 131 



Festuca octoflora Walt. 



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Map 132 

 Festuca octoflora 

 var. tenella ( Wi lid.) Fern. 



Lemmas mostly subacute; mature panicles strongly curved; spikelets somewhat 

 scattered at the ends of the panicle-branches 6. F. obtusa. 



Lemmas more acute; mature panicles drooping; spikelets more clustered at the 



ends of the panicle-branches ; florets more uniformly 3 or 4 to a spikelet 



7. F. paradoxa. 



1. Festuca octoflora Walt. Map 131. This species, as now known, is 

 restricted to the southern part of the state. It, and also the variety, are 

 more or less local because their habitat is local. On the whole, it is more 

 or less frequent and is found in bare, sandy, sometimes very sandy soil. 



N. J. to Okla., southw. to Fla. and Tex. 



la. Festuca octoflora var. tenella (Willd.) Fern. (Rhodora 34: 209-211. 

 1932.) Map 132. The variety is doubtless found in every county of the 

 state where its peculiar habitat is found. The slightly acid property of 

 the sandy soil in which it is found doubtless restricts its appearance in 

 the Tipton Till Plain. 



Maine, Que., B. C, southw. to Ga., Ark., Tex., and Calif. 



2. Festuca rubra L. Map 133. This grass was found by Madge 

 McKee in a vacant lot in Goodland, Newton County. It was well estab- 

 lished here. It was found in 1935 by R. C. Friesner at 3711 N. Gladstone 

 Ave. in Indianapolis, where it had taken possession of the lawn. It is 

 probably established in many other places throughout the state where it 

 has been introduced in lawns in grass seed, but it has not been detected 

 because of its close resemblance to Festuca ovina and Poa pratensis. In 

 1937 I found it along a roadside near a house in Noble County. 



Lab. to Alaska, southw. in the mts. in the west to Ariz., in the Allegheny 

 Mts. to Ga., and along the Coastal Plain; probably mostly introduced in 

 the Eastern States. 



3. Festuca capillata Lam. (Rhodora 18: 235. 1916.) (Festuca ovina 

 var. capillata (Lam.) Hack.) Hair Fescue. Map 134. I have a letter from 



