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pressed; leaves linear, short, bluish green; sheaths rather loose with a short, ob- 

 tuse stipule. A valuable grass with sweet and nutritious herbage, propagating itself 

 everywhere (Virginia and Tennessee northward) in woods, pastures and meadows. 

 Wood's Botany. — Translator. 



Festtica elatior s. pratensis, tall fescue grass. Rachis unilateral, spreading when 

 in bloom, otherwise contracted; branches rough, usually in pairs, one short with 

 one spike, the other long and raceme-like, with three or four spikelets. (Fig. 21). 



Festuca arundinacca. Rachiy large, nodding; branches rough, in pairs, each with 

 5 to 10 spikelets. 



Fig. 16. Agrostis vulgar 



Festuca heterophylla, F. ovina, F. rubra, sheep fescue and red fescue. Lower 

 leaves folded, bristly. 



Festuca gigantea, giant fescue. Leaves broad, long pointed, drooping, edges 

 rough ; awns twice as long as the pales ; tortuous ; woody when mature. 



Bromus erectus s. pratensis, meadow chess. Lower leaves very narrow, edges 

 ciliated; rachis erect, evenly spreading. (Fig. 22.) 



Bromus mollis, downy chess. Grayish green ; lower pale awned ; leaf sheathes 

 downy. 



Bromus racemosus. Resembles B. mollis. 



Bromus inermis, unarmed chess. Leaves and leaf sheathes naked; lower glume 

 awnless. 



