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A MANUAL OF FARM GRASSES 



uppermost blade I to 3 inches long, appressed to the 

 stem, slightly roughened on the edges. Inflorescence a 

 pyramidal panicle 3 to 6 inches long, the branches loosely 



5. Kentucky Bluegrass. A single head or panicle. 



spreading, the lower in a whorl of usually 5, the others 

 clustered or scattered, all of them slender and somewhat 

 flexuous, roughened, naked at base, the five in the lower 

 whorl of unequal length, one being long, two shorter and 



