FESTUCEiE. 617 



Texas to Arizona. 



This has been cultivated for fodder to a limited extent, but 

 doubtless almost every region which can grow this can grow some- 

 thing better. At one time it was extensively advertised under one 

 or both of the above common names. 



13. B. BRiz^FORMis Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 

 3:30 (1836). 



A soft nodding annual or biennial, 20-50 cm. high. Leaves 5 

 to 7, soft-pubescent, ligule about 2 mm. long; blades flat, 7-10 cm. 

 long, 3 mm. wide. Panicle at length nodding, 10-15 mm. long, 

 rays in threes to fives, the longest 5-7 cm. long, usually bearing 

 single spikelets. Sjjikelets nodding, ovate-ol^long, compressed, 

 10-15-flowered, 2-2.5 cm. long, joint of rachilla 1.5 mm. long; 

 first glume ovate-oblong, almost acute, 3-5-nerved, 5-6 mm. long, 

 second broadly oval, acute or obtuse, 7-nerved, 7-8 mm. long; floral 

 glume compressed, broadly oval or rhombic-obovate when spread, 

 9-nerved, awn seldom 1 mm. long; palea obtuse, pectinate-ciliate 

 on the keels, about 6 mm. long. 



Vermont, Pr ingle ; Nevada, Tracy. 



Introduced into cultivation as an ornamental grass from south- 

 eastern Europe. It has considerably the appearance of Briza 

 ■maxima. 



14. P). SQUARROSUS L. Sp. PL 76 (1753). B. hirsntns Schrank, 

 Denkschr. Bot. Ges. Regensb. 161 (1818). 



A soft slender erect grass, 30-40 cm. high. Sheaths pubescent, 

 shorter than the internodes; ligule short; blades 3 in number, flat, 

 pubescent or scabrid, 5-10 cm. long, 2 mm. wide. Panicle simple, 

 6-10 cm. long, rays in twos, threes, or fours, filiform, flexuose, the 

 longest 4-5 cm. long, bearing a single spikelet. Spikelets flat, scabrid, 

 linear or ovate, elliptical, 8-10-flowered, joint of rachilla 1.5 mm. 

 long; first empty glume ovate, acute, 5-nerved, 5 mm. long, second 

 acute, 7-nerved, 7 mm. long; floral glume oval-obovate, 9-nerved, 

 10 mm. long, apex entire or notched, hardly acute, awns of lower 

 florets 5 mm. long, straight, those above 10 mm. long, bent 

 and slightly twisted; palea oblanceolate, 8 mm. long, pectinate 

 ciliate. 



