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No. 55. Bromus pumpellianus Scribn. Western Brome-grass. 



A native of the Northwestern .states in the Rocky Mountain region, extending into 

 Canada. In habit of growth it closely resembles Hungarian, or Smooth Brome- 

 grass (B. inermis), and is doubtless equally valuable. Prof. James Fletcher, who 

 has cultivated this grass at the experiment station at Ottawa, Canada, says, 

 "This is a very valuable grass, producing an abundance of leaves, continuing in 

 llower for a long time, and giving a heavy aftermath." 



No. 56. Bromus racemosus Linn. Upright Chess. 



An introduced annual, 1 to 3 feet high, with more or less spreading and nodding 

 panicles and smooth spikelets. This is a very common grass in cultivated fields 

 and waste places, and is often mistaken for Chess, from which it differs chiefly 

 in its narrower panicles and straight awns, which are nearly as long as the 



Fig. 21.— Chess {Bromus secalinus). 



no. 22.— Rescue- grass {Bromus unioloides). 



flowering glumes. This grass has booorae very common in certain sections, par- 

 ticularly in the South. A field of it presents an attractive appearance, and the 

 hay produced is of good quality. 



No. 57. Bromus secalinus Linn. Chess; Cheat. (Fig. 21.) 



A well-known, weedy, annual grass, introduced into this ccmntry many years ago, 

 and now coniinon in grain fields and waste lands. The panicle is spreading and 

 more or less drooping, and the awns of the flowering glumes are usually much 

 shorter than the glumes thciniselves and nioie or less flexuose. The idea that 

 Cheat or Chess is degenerated wheat has no foundation whatever in fact. Only 

 Cheat seeds will produce Cheat, and it is certain that wherever these plants 

 appear they were preceded by Cheat seeds, which may have been introduced with 

 the grail) sown, <.r brought by birds or animals from other fields. Cheat and 

 wheat are only remotely related; they Welong to (luite distinct tribes in the grass 



