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Journal of Agricultural Research 



Vol. III. No. 3 



Table II. — Average fertility of the seed of range plants from igoy to igog, inclusive" 

 PLANTS OF THE HIGH RANGE 



Name of plant. 



Scientific. 



Seed 



fertility 



(germina- 



tion). 



Mountain bunch-grass 



Little bluegrass 



Short-awned brome-grass 



Tufted hair-grass 



Onion grass, or mountain bluegrass.... 



Reed-grass 



Alpine redtop 



Smooth wild rj'e 



Alpine timothy 



Western porcupine, or needle grass 



White foxtail 



Little needle grass 



Elk-grass 



Tall swamp-grass 



Sheep sedge 



Wire sedge 



Wood rush , 



Mountain onion 



False hellebore , 



Skunk weed, or Jacob 's-ladder 



Wild celery 



Blue beardtongue 



Wild buckwheat 



Horsemint 



Mountain dandelion 



Woolly weed 



Yarrow, or wild tansy 



Coneflower , 



Festtica viridula 



Poa sandbergii 



Bromus marginatus 



Deschampsia caespitosa 



Melica bella 



Cinna latifolia 



Agrostis rossae 



Elymus glaucus 



Phleum alpinum , 



Stipa occidentalis 



Sutanion vclutinum 



Stipa minor 



Carex geyeri 



Carex exsiccata 



Carex illota 



Carex hoodi 



Juncoides glabratum 



Allium validum 



Veratum viride 



Polemonium humile 



Ligusticum oreganum 



Pentstemon procerus 



Polygonum pliytolaccaefolium . 



Agastache urticifolia 



Agoseris glauca 



Hieracium cynoglossoides 



Achillea lanulosa 



Rudbeckia occidentalis 



Per cent. 

 12. 2 

 7.0 

 47.6 



26. 4 

 4.0 



86.8 

 36.0 

 21. 2 



69-5 



27. o 



69- 5 

 29.8 



21-3 

 15-2 



27- S 



37. 



24- 



42. 



6. 



i8. 



9. 



22. 2 

 36.0 

 10. 9 

 27.8 

 21.8 



Average germination. 



28.3 



PLANTS OF THE LOW RANGE 



Big bunch-grass 



Pine-grass 



Marsh pine-grass, orbluejoint. 



Mountain June-grass 



Slender hair-grass 



Soft cheat 



Tall meadow-grass 



Geranium 



Fireweed 



Average germination. 



Agropyron spicatum 



Calamagrostis rubescens 



Calamagrostis canadensis 



Koeleria cristata 



Deschampsia elongata 



Bromus hordeaccus 



Panicularia ncrvata 



Geranium viscosissimum . . . . 

 Chamaenerion angustifolium . 



24-3 

 69.6 



71-5 

 15-0 

 41. 6 

 48.2 

 85.0 

 29- 5 



21- S 



45-1 



1 In the case of a few species listed seed tests were made during two seasons only. 



It will be observed that the viability of the seed of most plants is low. 

 In the case of the important mountain bunch-grass, for example, barely 

 more than one-tenth of the seed germinates. In a few cases mountain 



