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GRASSES OF IOWA. 



3. FESTUCA PRATENSIS. 



Festuca pratensis Huds. Fl. Aril. 37. 1762. (ed. 1). 



Festuca elatior L. va.v. pratensis Gray. Watson and Coulter, Gray . 

 Man. Bot. 659. pi. 10. 1890. (6 ed.) 



Festuca elatior L. var. pratensis Hackel. Scribner, Grasses of Tenn. 

 Bull. Univ. Tenn. Agrl. Exp. Sta. 7: 116. /. 163. 1894. 



Festuca elatior L. var. pratensis (Huds.) Hack. Beal. Grasses of N. 

 A. 2: 592. 1896. Scribner. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 7: 294. 

 /. 288. 1900 (3ed.) 



Festuca elatior. Nash, in Britton and Brown. 111. Fl. 1: 217. /. 502. 

 1896. 



FlG. 195. Festuca pratensis- a, spikelet. (Div. 

 Agros. U. S. Dept. Agr. ) 



DESCRIPTION. 



Tall or Meadow Fescue Grass. Perennial, culms i to 3 feet 

 (2-6 dm.) high, erect; sheath striate, smooth; ligule short; leaves long, 



