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GRAMINACEAE 



Festuca — Fescue Grass 



(Lat. festuca, stem, straw) 



1. Leaves narrow and involute; lemma awned 



2. Leaves flat; lemma not awned 



F. ovina: sheep's fescue 

 F. nutans: nodding 

 fescue grass 



(Gr. era, ground, 



1. Perennial, reddish; branches of 



2. Annual ; branches shorter 



a. Spikelets 2-8 mm. long 



b. Spikelets 5-16 mm. long 



Eragrostis — Eragrostis 



agrostis, grass, from the spreading 

 >anicle long and stiff 



habit) 

 E. pectindcea 



E. pildsa 



E. megasldchya 



IIORDEAE BARLEY OR RYE TRIBE 



1. Spikelets 1 at each joint of the zigzag axis 



a. Spikelets with edge turned towards the axis Lolium 



b. Spikelets with flat side turned towards axis 



(1) Native perennials ■ Agropyrum 



(2) Cultivated annuals 



(a) Spikelets 2-several-flowered, glumes broadly ovate Triticum 



(b) Spikelets 2-flowered, glumes acute Secale 



2. Spikelets 2-several (sometimes 1 or more rudimentary) at each joint of 



the zigzag axis 



a. Spikelets 1-flowered, in 3's at each joint, the lateral reduced Hordeum 



b. Spikelets 2-6 flowered 



(1) Spikelets ascending, glumes about the same size as lemmas Elymus 



(2) Spikelets spreading horizontally, glumes very small or lacking Hysirix 



A single introduced species 



Lolium — Darnel 



(Lat. name of the darnel) 



L. perenne: common 

 darnel 

 Agropyrum — Wheat Grass 



(Gr. agros, field, pyros, wheat) 



1. Stems tufted, no creeping rootstocks or stolons; lemma awned 



a. Awn about twice the length of the lemma; spike thick A. Richardsonii 



b. Awn shorter than the lemma; spike slender A. tenerum 



2. Stems solitary or few, from creeping rootstocks; lemma mostly awnless 



or awn-pointed 



Triticum — Wheat 



(The Latin name) 



1. Grain remaining within the glumes when ripe 



2. drain easily falling out when ripe 



A. re pens: quackgrass, 

 couch grass 



T. spelta: spelt 

 T. vulgdre: common 

 zvheat 



A single cultivated spec! 



Secale — Rye 



(NL. from seco, cut) 



Hordeum — Barley 



(Lat. name of the barley) 



1. Cultivated; glumes short, not awn-like 



2. Native weed; glumes long and awn-like 



Elymus — Rye Grass, Wild Rye 



(Gr, elymos, a kind of grass, from elyo, roll u?) 



1. Spike erect, awns shorter than the spikelet 



2. Spike more or less nodding, awns longer than spikelet 

 a. Glumes narrowly awl-shaped; spike slender 



S. ceredle 



H. vulgdre: barley 

 H. jubdtum: squirrel-tail 

 grass 



E. virginicus 

 E. stridtus 



