FESTUCA HETEROPHYLLA. 



VARIOUS-LEAVED FESCUE. 



Boots fibrous, rootstock perennial, tufted. Stems 

 2 to 2^ feet, numerous, erect, and smooth. Leaves 

 various, dark green, lower ones folded, upper ones flat. 

 Panicle diffuse. Spikelets many-flowered. Empty 

 glumes unequal, shorter than flowering glumes, with 

 prominent midrib and long awn. Flowers June and 

 July. Grows in meadows and pastures throughout 

 Central Europe; introduced into Great Britain for 

 cultivation in permanent pastures. 



ANALYSIS. 



Water . 

 * Soluble albuminoids 

 **Insoluble albuminoids 

 Digestible fibre 

 Woody fibre . 

 f Soluble mineral matter 

 ■j-flnsoluble mineral matter 



Chloropliyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &c 



Grass in 

 Natural State. 



41-07 



•31 



2-13 



17-81 



26-21 



3-18 



1-51 



7-78 



* Containing Nitrogen 



** Containing Nitrogen 



Albuminoid Nitrogen 

 Non-albuniiuoid Nitrogen 



Total Nitrogen 



t Containing Silica 



tt Containing Silica 



•05 

 •34 



-39 

 •42 



•36 

 •94 



Dried at 

 212= Fahr. 



•50 



3-64 



30-22 



44-48 



5-39 



2-56 



13-21 



100-00 100-00 



•08 

 •58 



•66 

 •71 



•61 

 1-59 



146 



