486 FOREST CULTURE AND 
Festuca coiron, Steudel. — Chile. A valuable pe- 
rennial fodder-grass, according to the testimony of Dr. 
Philippi. 
Festuca distichophylla, J. Hooker.— Victoria, South 
Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales. This dwarf 
creeping grass isof great value for binding soil, form- 
ing rough lawns, edging garden-plots on arid places, 
and covering coast-sand. 
Festuca dives, F. v. Mueller.*—Victoria, from West 
Gipps Land to Dandenong and the sources of the riv- 
ers Yarra and Goulburn. One of the most magnificent 
of all sylvan grasses, not rarely 12 feet, and exception- 
ally to 17 feet high. Root perennial. This grass de- 
serves to be brought to any forest tracts, as it prospers 
in shade; along rivulets, in deep soil, it assumes its 
grandest forms. The large panicle affords nutritious 
forage. 
Festuca flava, F. v. Mueller. (Poa flava, Gronov, 
Tricuspis seslerioides, Torr., Uralepis cuprea, Kunth.) 
—The tall red-top-grass of the Eastern States of North 
America. <A perennial sand-grass, with wide panicles. 
Festuca gigantea, Villars. — Europe and Middle 
Asia. A perennial, good, forest-grass. 
Festuca heterophylla, Lamarck.—Mountains of Eu- 
rope. This perennial grass attains a height of five 
feet ; it produces a proportionately great bulk of fod- 
der, and serves as an admixture to grasses of hay or 
pasture lands, particularly the former (Lawson). It 
is best fitted for our alpine and highest forest-tracts, 
which, in course of time, and, perhaps early so, will 
be sought for close pastoral occupation, when territo- . 
rial areas will become less easily acquired. 
Festuca spadicea, Linné. — Alps of Europe. This 
