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Perennial, 1| to 3 ft. Europe and ±s . Asia; recommended in 



Britain for hay and permanent pastures. Commercial seed is 

 imported from Denmark and the United States (Hunter j. 

 * fc Meadow Fescue" is "of small importance in American agri- 

 culture, except in Eastern Kansas, where much seed is grown 

 principally for export to Europe '*' (Piper). 



Festuca rubra, Linn.; lied Fescue, Creeping* Fescue. 



Perennial, 1 to 2 ft. Northern temperate and arctic regions, 

 New Zealand, &c. In Europe grown in meadows and pastures 

 and recommended where hares are preserved. In North 

 America, though wild, it does not appear to be much cultivated 

 for forage. Both Sutton and Hunter indicate difficulty in 

 obtaining seeds of this grass, and the latter recommends a variety 

 called ''Chewing's Fescue*' from New Zealand. Armstrong 



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(seq. p. 151) identifies this variety 



/ 



flack. [F, f alias, Thuill., found in all Europe except Russia. 

 and the Balkan? 



cultural value ii 



for all practical purposes '" Chewing' s Fescue ' is identical with 



the European Red Fescue. 



Bromus inermis, Leyss,; Brome Grass, Awnless Brome Grass, 



Hungarian Forage Grass. 



Perennial, 1 to 3 ft., native of North Europe, Caucasus region, 

 Siberia, and found in the Western Himalaya. An important 

 fodder grass in Germany and Hungary; grown also in Britain 

 and North America ; suitable for all kinds of stock. 



Bromus unioloides, //. B. «y K. (Z?. Schraderi, Kunth) ; 

 Fescue Grass. Schrader's Brome Grass, Australian Brome. 



Annual or biennial, 2 to 4 ft. high, native of South America — - 

 Argentine; cultivated in the Southern United States for wintei 

 foragie (Hitchcock), and Australia, where practically all tin 

 commercial seed is grown (Piper), and to a small extent in 

 England. 



11 Chess or Cheat" (Bromus sccalinus, Linn.), native of Europe 



Med 



a common weed in wheal 



fields, is cultivated for hay in Oregon and Washington (Hitch- 

 cock), in North Georgia under the name of "Arctic Grass." 

 u produces good crops of hay which liverymen consider equal 

 to fi Timothy," especially if it be cut while the seeds are in the 



dough stage " (idem). 





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forage. 



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Lolium perenne, Linn.; Perennial Rye Grass, Red Darnel. 



Perenninl, 1 to 2 ft. Europe, Temperate Asia and North 

 Africa; cultivated in New Zealand. One of the oldest and hest 

 known grasses for permanent pastures and rotation in Europe. 

 Commercial supplier of seed grown largely in Scotland and 



Ireland. 



