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Eulalia japonica. (See Miscanthus sinensis.) 3i 
Eustachys petreea. (See Chloris petraa.) 
Festuca duriuscula Lam. Hard Fescue; Tall Sheep’s Fescue. 
A slender, densely tufted perennial grass, 1 to 2 feet high, with numerous very fine 
radical leaves and open panicles. This is one of the forms of Sheep’s Fescue, 
and is of little value except in pastures. Its particular merit lies in its ability 3 
to thrive on dry, sandy soils unfit for the 8 of better grasses, and it well 
resists long periods of summer drought. It is well adapted to the cooler and 
mountainous regions of our country, being a de ve of the cooler temperate 
regions of both hemispheres. On well-manured, clayey land this Fescue has 
produced upon a single acre 18,376 pounds of green hay at time of flowering, and 
8,269 pounds of hay besides 10,029 pounds of aftermath. It possesses some value 
as a lawn grass, but if nsed for this purpose it 
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seed in New York markets, $16 io $18 per 100 
pounds. 
Festuca elatior Linn. Tall Fescue; Tall Meadow 
Fescue; English Blue-grass; Randall-grass; Ever- 
green-grass 
This grass has been widely cultivated in this SOUR 
and being of long duration, is especially valuable 
for permanent pastures. It thrives best on moist | 
soils rich in humus, whether marls or clays. The | 
t e species, with a wer- 
iiia panicle. Variety arundinacea (fig. 42 
vigorous, tall form, 3 to high, ex- 
e hardy, and ym a very large amount 
of hay of excellent quality, succeeding best > 
on lands that are Sonar atively moist. Th 
seed of Meadow Fescue is q n some of 
the New York catalogues at $3.50 per bushel 
or $22 per 100 pounds. A bushel weighs about 14 
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| TK AE iret en up Festuca glauca Hort. 
E A low grass, similar in its habit of growth and 
E pud closely resembling Festuca ovina, and by many authors regarded. 
É merely as a variety of that species. Owing to its pale, glaucous eolor and 
E densely ean manner of growth, it ee an attractive plant for edgings and 
for that purpose by florists. 
Festuca heterophylla Lam. Various-leafed Fescue. 
A rather slender onde seem grass, 2 to 4 feet high, with very narrow € 
radical leaves, and narrow but flat culm leaves. It is a perennial, closely 
related to creeping Fescue, of which it has been made a variety by some authors. 
The a is comparatively go Nae and nodding at the apex. It is a 
species preferring a rather mil and grows naturally in open woodlands 
or EM their borders. It 8 ia pe growth on low-lying lands which are 
Bob too dry, but upon good soil it withstands very well protracted periods of 
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