PL end. ph. 10. GRAMINEiE. 63. Fcstuca. 121 



Festiica ovina, Lin. S. P. 108. 

 Avcna o\\iia., Salisb. Prud.2'2. 



Meadows and hills; perennial; Jane. 



Root fibrous, in tufts : radical leaves many, upright, glau- 

 cous; stem-leaves few, short; .sheatks \evy\o\\^; culm 8 in. 

 high; panicle spikeshape; peduncles solitary; locasice very 

 small. 



2. Festuca te?iuifolia. Finelt'aved fescue. 

 Panicle facing one way, spreading, becoming contracted; 



locusice ovate, 4 or 5-flov?ered, awnless, rough ; spat hellnles 

 roundish, upper edge very smooth ; leaves Jiairlike, flaccid, 

 rough. 



Grainen pratense q. Gramen capillaceum locisstcliis pemiatis non aris- 

 tatis, RaiiSjn. 410, 9. 



Festuca tenui folia, Sibthorp. 44. 

 Festuca ovina /3, Leers Herb. 33. 



Meadows; perennial; June. 



3. Festuca vivipara. Childing fescue. 

 Panicle contracted; locusicT'. ovate, lanceolate, pubescent; 



Jiowrets compressed, keeled, awnless, pubescent; inner 

 margin of the spathellules pubescent ; culm rather naked ; 

 leaves very slender, smooth. 



Gramen pratense q. Gramen sparteum montanum spica foliaccagraminea 

 majiis et minus How. Raii S'jn. 4i0, 11. 

 Festuca ovina ;6, Lin. S. P. 108. 

 Festuca vivipara. Smith Fl.Brit. 114. 



Alpine mountains ; perennial ; July. 



Root fibrous, in tufts; leaves recurved, angular, light 

 green; panicle short, scarcely branched, upright; locusta 

 green ; glume and glumelle changing into leaves. 



4. Festuca violacea. Violet fescue. 

 Panicle branched, slightly spreading; locustcB oblong, 



smoothish, bristled; leaves hairlike, soft; stem-leaves very 

 short, doubled, capillary ; culm threadlike. 



Festuca rubra, fVith. Bot. Arr. 20S.? 

 Festuca violacea, Gaud Agr. Helv, 231. 

 Festuca ovina iS, Smith FL Br. 113. 



Meadows and hills; perennial; June. 



Root in tufts ; culm very smooth, 4 in. high ; leaves light 

 green; stem-leaves 2 or 3 ; sheaths very long, smooth; 

 panicle oblong ; peduncles in pairs, violet ; locusicB violet. 



