126 FKSTL'CEAE 



They i)ro(luce abundance of seed and no d(jubt grow readily 

 from seed. The same sort of treatment that is given oats 

 would no doubt result in a crop of brome hay and a meadow 

 that wnuld b-e vahial)le for scvcval years. Those regions in 

 which the brome grasses occur most commonly and in which 

 they would no doubt be most valual)le as hay grasses, although 

 occuiMed are nowhere int.rsi\ely or extensively farmed in 

 New Mexico as \et. In such locations there is abundance of 

 summer feul f(M" all kinds of stock to be had for the gather- 

 ing, ar.d the animals are left to gather it. while the owner 

 merely gathers the animals. The small amount of feed that is 

 necessary for tlie short winter is usually obtained by growing' 

 a crop of oats which is cured as ha}-. In some ])laces a little 

 alfalfa is grown especially if the land can be irrigated. Thus 

 with a little garden for the household vegetables, a few milch- 

 cows, a few acres of oats and corn and a few cattle on the 

 range to supply the necessary cash, the mountain farmer lias 

 most of his wants supplied and is but little interested in im- 

 proved farming methods. Doubtless when the land is much 

 more tliickdy populated than now. advantage will be taken of 

 more of these latent possibilities of the region. The authors 

 would call tlie attnetion of such farmers to these native brome 

 grasses with the suggestion that they probably have at their 

 verv doors a good hay g-rass thioroughly adapted to the region, 

 that will stand the spring droug^ths better and mature a crop 

 more regularly than anything in tlie grass line that they can 

 plant, and that once established it will probably produce sev- 

 eral crops with the minimum of labor. It is certainly well 

 worth tr>'ing on a small scale at least. 



Tribe VIII. FESTUCEAE. 



FloweHpE Khirre.s with numerous (9 or more) n ,i,i>r> o.Tn.MTM 



awn-llke divisions or awned lobes. "'1 Pappo riioiaiM. 



Flowe-lng gUimes with fewer lobes or entire. 



Flowe'inK glumes. ;it least of the pistillate 



spikelet.s, S-lobed ard :^-awned-. plant 



dioecious, staminate glumes not awned. 62. Scleropogon. 

 Flowering glumes entire, or nt most 2-lobed. 

 Hairs on the rachilla or the flowering 

 glume very long and enclosing the 

 j.,jter. 5'5- Phragmites 



