GRASSES OF IOWA. 



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TABLE No. V SHOWING VIABILITY AND PURITY OF GOOD 



COMMERCIAL SEEDS, AND TEMPERATURE AT WHICH 



THEY GERMINATE. 



KIND OF SEED. 



Grasses and Cereals: 



AgTOStis stolonifera (florin) 



Agrostis vulgaris (red top) 



Alopecurus pratensis (meadow foxtail) 



Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal) . . - . 

 Anthoxanthum puelli (annual sweet vernal) 

 Arrhenatherum avenaceum (tall oat grass) ., 



Avena sattva (common oats) 



Avena flavescens (yellow oat grass) 



Bromus mollis (soft chess) 



Bromus inermis (Hungarian brome) 



Bromus pratensis (meadow brome) 



Bromus schraderi (rescue grass) 



Cynodon dactylon (Bermuda grass) 



Cynosurus cristatus (crested dog's tail) 



Daetylis glomerata (orchard grass) 



Pestuca duriuscnla (hard fescue) 



Festuca elatior (Randall grass) 



Pestuca tenuifolia 



Pestuca ovina (sheep's fescue) 



Festuca pratense (meadow fescue) 



Pestuca rubra (red fescue) 



Holcus lanatus (velvet grass) 



Hordeum vulgare (cultivated barley) 



Lolium italicum (Italian rye grass) 



Lolium perenne (English rye grass) 



Oryza sativa (cultivated rice) 



Panicum germanicum (golden millet) 



Panicum milaceum (millet) 



Panicum sanguinale (crab grass) 



Panicum spicata (pearl millet) 



Phleum pratense (timothy) . 



Poa arachnifera (Texas blue grass) 



Poa compressa (June grass) 



Poa nemoralis (wood grass) 



Poa pratensis (Ken tuck blue grass) 



Poa serotina (fowl meadow grass) 



Poa trivialis (rough-stalked meadow grass).. 



Secale cereale (cultivated rye) 



Chaetochloa Italica (Italian millet) 



Sorghum halapense (.Johnson grass) 



Sorghum nigrum (sugar cane) 



Sorghum saccharatum (broom corn) 



Triticum vulgare (cultivated wheat) 



Zea mays (Indian corn) 



