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FESTUCA BEOMOIDES. 



LiNNaius. Paenell. Hooker and Aknott. Smith. Geevilie. 

 Babington. Ktthth. Maceeight. Dbakin. 



PLATE L. A. 



Fest%ca Myuriis, 



" pseudo-myv/rus, 



Vulpia bromoides, 



Smith. (Not of LiNSfiEus.) 



Koch. 



Koch. 



Dttmoet. Lindley. 



The Barren Fescue Grass. 



Festuca — . 



Bromoides — Wild oats. 



A NOT uncommon but useless agricultural Grass. 



Found in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzer- 

 land, Germany, Belgium, and Holland. 



Stem upright, circular, smooth, and slender, carrying three 

 or four short, very narrow, frequently involute leaves, with 

 smooth striated sheaths, the upper one extending considerably 

 beyond its leaf, and having a very brief ligule at its apex. 

 Joints three, smooth. Inflorescence simple-panicled, long and 

 slender. Spikelets erect, of five awned florets. Calyx of two 

 exceedingly unequal acute glumes, the basal one destitute of 

 lateral ribs, whilst the uppermost one is three-ribbed. Florets 

 of two palcEB, the exterior one of basal floret five-ribbed, and 

 of same length as the large glume, ending in a long slender 

 awn. Inner palea lanceolate, having two green marginal ribs. 

 Root annual and fibrous. Length from two to twenty-four 

 inches. 



