428 THB GRASS FAMILY. 



6. Flowers usually of a fine pinky-red, especially at\ 



the tips ; whole plant downy and soft with fine [23. Meadow Soft-gbass 

 white hairs. Stem six to fifteen inches high, f (^^ile young). 



Panicle upright or a little inclining ) 



c. Flowers grayish-green ; panicle upright or a Httle 



drooping. Stems eighteen inches to three feet 

 high. 



Ovary glahrous ; style terminal 38. Tall Fescue-grass. 



Ovary hairy ; style lateral. 



Glumes naiTow-lanceolate; outer ones ohscurely 1 32. Upright Brome- 



ribbed ; anthers orange-coloured > grass. 



Glumes oblong, turgid ; outer ones distinctly 

 ribbed. Plant and spikelets more or less 

 downy 35. CommonBhome -grass. 



d. Plant very shm and slender, six to eight inches 



high. Leaves hair-like. Flowers monandrous. 



Panicle unilateral ; awns long 39. Roadside Fescue. 



Section 2nd. 

 Branches of the panicle more or less spreading, the lowermost usually horizontal, 



and often pointing a little downwards. 

 1. Panicle irregular, the branches often directed all 

 one way. Spikelets many-flowered. 

 Awns long and conspicuous. Plant resembhng oats, 

 two to three feet high, with a large green 



panicle. Spikelets pendulous 20. Strigose Oat. 



Awns absent, or, if any, very short and incon- 

 spicuous. 

 Plant rough and coarse, two to three feet high. 

 Panicle two to three inches long, with one 

 or two long horizontal branches at the base ; 

 the upper branches erect. Spikelets densely 



ovate 40. Rough Cock's-foot. 



Plant smooth and slender. 



Scales generally acute. Plant diy, usually wiry, 

 and rather glaucous. 

 Radical leaves cyhndrical, hair -like, and 

 densely tufted. Stems four to ten 



inches high 37. Sheep's Fescue. 



All the leaves flat. Stems twelve to eighteen 



inches high 38. Meadow Fescub. 



Scales obtuse. Plant light green and juicy. 

 Annual, three to ten inches high, growing) 46. Annual Garden- 



everyivhcre as a weed ) grass. 



Perennial, one to three feet high. A rare) 49. Sylvan Meadow- 

 plant in woods J grass. 



