GRASSES OF IOWA. 281 



linear lanceolate. Panicle s to 8 inches (10-16 cm.) lonsj;, oblong or 

 linear, somewhat one-sided, usually erect, nearlj simple, the branches 

 solitary or the lower in pairs, with few (1 to 4) spikelets. Spikelets 

 lanceolate, 6 lines (12 mm.) long, five to ten-flowered, empty glumes 

 unequal, dowering glumes lanceolate, acute. June to August. 



Occasionally cultivated. An excellent forage plant, but not adapted 

 to Iowa. 



.DISTRIBUTION. 



Iowa. Ames (Sirrine) ; 3219 Clinton (Pammel) ; Bartlett 



(Chambers); Des Moines (Wallace); Lineville (Shimelc) ; Ames 

 (Sirrine, Bessey, 1173 Pammel, 284 Pammel, 142 Ball, Weaver) ; Iowa 

 City (Macbride) ; Alt. Pleasant (861 Mills) ; Marshalltow n (Eckles) ; 

 Iowa City (Hitchcock.); Sioux City (Miss AV T akeiield ) ; Blue Grass 

 ( Barnes) ; Wintersct (Carver) ; Keokuk (Hitchcock). 



North America. Introduced into Nova Scotia, Massachusetts 

 imbridge, Pammel), New York (Parry), to North Carolina, west 

 to South Dakota (Belle Fourche, Griffith), Nebraska (Grand Island. 

 Pammel), Washington, Oregon and Kansas. 



General. Found throughout Europe well up into the Arctic re- 

 gions, also eastward into Siberia. 



4. FESTUCA SHORTII. 



Festuca Shortii Kunth. Wood's Class-book of Botany. 794. 1861. 

 Scribner. Grasses of Term. Bull. Univ. Tenn. Agrl. Exp. Sta. 7: 116. 

 f. 165. 1894. Nash in Britton and Brown. 111. PI. 1: 218. /. 503. 1896. 



Festuca nutans var. Shortii (Kunth.) Beal. Grasses of N. A. 2: 

 589. 1896. 



Festuca obtusa Spreng. Scribner. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agros. 

 17: 278. /". 574. 1899. 



DESCRIPTION'. 



Short's Fescue. Culms about 3 feet (6 dm.) high. Sheaths 

 smooth; ligule very short, leaf-blade 4 to 7 inches (8-15 cm.) long, 2 

 to .s lines (4-6 mm.) w-ide, acute, scabrous. Panicle 4 to 7 inches (8- 

 15 cm.) long, nodding, the scabrous branches in pairs below, the lower 



Festuca ovina. L. Sp. PI. 73. 1753. Watson and Coulter Gray Man. Bot. 669. 1890. 

 Beal. Grasses N. A. 8:593. 1896. Scribner, Grasses Tenn. Bull. Univ. Tenn. 7: 115. pi. 

 iO. Bull. U. 8. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 17 : 281. /. 577. 



DESCRIPTION. 

 Sheep's Fescue. A slender, densely tufted, erect perennial. %-2 feet (2-8 dm. ) high, 

 with narrow or filiform, involute leaves, and contracted (expanding while in bloom) pan- 

 icles \ X 3-1% inches (3-6 cm.) long. Spikelets 3-5 flowered, with empty glumes, and un- 

 usually short awned, smooth flowering glumes lJo-2 lines (3-4 mm. ) long. 



DISTRIBUTION. 

 Occasionally cultivated in Iowa. 



