FESTUCA OVINA. 



SHEEFS EESCUE. 



Eootstock perennial, creeping or tufted. Stems 6 

 to 12 inches, erect, and densely tufted, rough at the 

 upper part and smooth below. Leaves very slender, 

 chiefly radical, upper ones rolled ; sheath smooth ; 

 ligule long and bilobed. Panicle small, erect, con- 

 tracted, and subsecund. Spikelets many-flowered, 

 small, upright. Empty glumes shorter than flowering 

 glumes, unequal and acute. Flowering glumes small, 

 with minute awn. Palea toothed, with hairy nerves. 

 Flowers June and July. Grows in dry, hilly pastures 

 throughout Europe, Siberia, North Africa, North 

 America, and Australia. 



ANALYSIS. 



Water .... 

 ^Soluble albuminoids 

 **Insoluble albuminoids . 

 Digestible fibre 

 Woody fibre . 

 jSoluble mineral matter, 

 tflnsoluble mineral matter 



* Containing Nitrogen 

 *•* Containing Nitrogen 



Non-albu iuoid Nitrogen 



t Containing Silica 

 tt Containing Silica 



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