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THE SCIENTIFIC FEEDING OF ANIMALS 



Avena s. Tristtum flavescens, golden oats. Culm often hairy on lower internodes ; 

 panicle wide; golden iridescense when in bloom; panicle delicately branched, rough; 

 upper blossoms long awned. (Fig. 17). 



Holcus lanatus, woolly honeygrass, soft grass. Hoary pubescent; awns recurved 

 shorter than glumes; spikelets whitish or reddish. Of indifferent food value. 



Holcus mollis, soft honeygrass. Smooth, naked; awns straight, longer than the 

 glumes (Fig. 18). 



Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass. Spikelets numerous, aggregated, compressed; 

 spike unilateral. (Fig. 19). Excellent grass. 



Fig. 14. Timothy (Phleum pratense). 



Fig. 15. English rye grass 

 (Lolium perenne). 



Poa pratensis, spear grass, June grass. Culm terete, smooth, panicle contracted 

 before bloom, then spreading; blue, violet or brownish hue. Branches rough; blos- 

 som glumes covered with short down; forms matted stolons. (Fig. 20). 



Poa trivialis, common or rough meadow grass. Culm and leaf sheaths rough. 



Poa serotina, meadow redtop, foul meadow. Culm erect, weak,, leaves narrowly 

 linear, flat. Varies with the spikelets all two flowered and colored or all three or 

 more flowered. 



Poa nemoralis. Leaf sheaths shorter than the culm joints; nodes bare. 



Poa annua, annual spear-grass. Very small, panicles usually unilateral. 



Poa compressa, bluegrass. Culm decumbent and rooting at base, much com-^ 



