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Botanical Section 



[PT I 



Shoots round; sheaths split; leaf-blades long, firm, folded or rolled 

 inwards, with spinous points. The inner or upper surface of the 

 blade has deep grooves and flat-topped prominent ribs; the lower 

 surface is ribless and smooth. Ligule very short and blunt. 

 Auricles distinct. 



Fig. 98. Festuca Myurus 

 About ] nat. size. 



Fig. 99. "Seed" of 

 Festuca Myurus. 

 x 10. 



Flowers about July; culms from 2 to 5 feet high. Inflores- 

 cence spikate, from 4 to 10 inches long. Spikelets of 3 or 4 flowers, 

 arranged in pairs at each notch of the rachis. Empty glumes 

 usually three-nerved, narrow, acute, nearly equal, and more or 

 less woolly. 



"Seeds" about 14mm. long (varying from 10-18 mm.). Outer 



