306 



Fig. 602. Secale montanum Guss. Flor. Sic. Prod. 145. 1827. 

 Mountain Rye. — A fibrous-rooted, erect, glabrous perennial. 9 to 

 12 dm. bigb, with flat leaves and nodding, somewhat compressed 

 spikes 6 to 10 cm. long. Spikelets about 15 mm. long, with very 

 narrow. awnless,orshort-awnedenipty glumes and ciliate,5-nerved, 

 awned flowering glumes; awns 28 to 30 mm. long. — Sparingly in- 

 troduced into cultivation. July. 



Probably a good bay grass. 



