222 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Festuca flava, F. v. Mueller. (Poa flava, Gronovius ; Tricuspis sesleriodes, 

 Torrey ; Uralepis cuprea, Kunth. ) 



The tall Redtop-G-rass of the Eastern States of North- America. 

 A perennial sand-grass with wide panicles. F. scabrella is one of 

 the "Bunch-grasses" of Oregon and California. 



Festuca gigantea, Villars. 



Europe and Western Asia. A good perennial forest-grass. 



Festuca heterophylla, Lamarck. 



Europe and Western Asia. This perennial grass is best fitted for 

 cool forest-tracts. Recommended also among lawn-grasses. This 

 species is hardly distinct from F. ovina. It will bear a good deal of 

 drought, and thrives even on lowlying sandy clay and rnoory soil. 

 Suits best for intermixing with other grasses. 



Festuca Hookeriana, F. v. Mueller.* 



Alps of Australia and Tasmania. A tall perennial grass, evidently 

 nutritious, required to be tried for pasture-culture, and perhaps 

 destined to become a new meadow-grass of colder countries also 

 elsewhere. Stands mowing and depasturing well ; much liked by 

 cattle, horses and sheep [Th. Walton]. F. purpurascens (Banks) is 

 an allied species. 



Festuca litoralis, La Billardiere. 



Extra-tropical Australia and New Zealand. An important strong 

 perennial grass for binding drift-sand on sea-shores in mild zones. 

 Its stature is almost that of the Marram- and the Lyme-grass. 



Festuca Magellanica, Lamarck. 



Extra-tropic South- America. Ascending the Andes to 12,000 

 feet, and contributing much to the fattening pasturage there 

 [Hieronymus]. 



.Festuca ovina, Linne. 



Sheep-Fescue. Europe, Northern and Middle Asia, North- 

 America ; found also in South- America and the Alps of Australia 

 and New Zealand. In Greenland it reaches to 79 N.L. This 

 species, like F. elatior, is obtainable with facility. F. duriuscula 

 and F. rubra (Linne) are varieties. A perennial grass, thriving on 

 widely different soils, even moory and sandy ; adapted also for alpine 

 and for coast-land ; but not equal in nutritive value to many other 

 pasture-grasses, though for poor, dry sheep-runs in cool climes one of 

 the best. It yields a good produce, maintains its virtue, resists 

 drought, and is also well adapted for lawns and swards of parks. F. 

 'vaginata (Willdenow) is a form particularly recommended by Wessely 

 for sand-soil. Chemical analysis, made very late in spring, gave 



