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go to seed before the next year, but if sown in the fall it will bring seed the next 

 spring." From the limited cultivation it has met with in Tennessee, it seems rather 

 to be better adapted to moist, low lands, though I have seen it growing on gome of 

 the high ridges of East Tennessee, at least 1,500 feet above the sea. There it 

 thrives luxuriantly and makes a very superior pastnre. 



Professor Phares, of Mississippi, says : 



It grows well in nearly all situations, wet or dry. on hill or bottom land, even 

 though subject to overflow, and matures an extraordinary quantity of seed. The 

 seeds germinate readily, and it is easy to set a piece of land with this grass. Seeded 

 alone, 28 pounds, or about 2 bushels of seed, should be sown broadcast in August, 

 September, October, or from the middle of February to the 1st of April. From re- 

 maining green through the winter it is sometimes called • • evergreen grass." Mowed 

 and dried it makes a good hay, much relished by stock. 



6. F. gigantea, Till. Introduced. 



7. F. gracillima, Hook. California to Washington Territory. 



8. F. Jonesii, Vasey. Nevada to British America. 



9. F. Howellii, Hack. Oregon. 



10. F. microstachys, JS^utt. Arizona to British America. 

 F. microstachys, var. ciliata, Gr. California. 



F. microstachys, var. divergens, Thurb. California. 

 F. microstachys, var. pauciflora, Scrib. Oregon. 



11. F. Mynrus, Linn. Introduced and naturalized. 



12. F. nutans, Willd. New England to Texas. 



13. F. occidentalis, Hook. Oregon to British America. 



14. F. ovina, Linn. Fescue grass. 



F. ovina, var. Arizonica, Hack. Arizona. 



F. ovina, var. b re vi folia. ^Vatson. Rocky Mountains. 



F. ovina, var. macrochseta, Hack. California. 



F. ovina, var. polyphylla, Vasey. California to Oregon. 

 A densely-tufted, perennial grass, with au abundance of rather 

 narrow, sometimes involute, short radical leaves and slender culms, 

 1 to 1£ feet high. The panicle is 2 to 4 inches long, narrow, the 

 branches mostly single and alternate, erect and few-flowered ; the 

 spikelets are mostly three to five flowered, and about three lines 

 long ; the outer glumes are acute and narrow. The flowering glumes 

 are lanceolate, two lines long, roughish, and with a short rough awn 

 about half a line long. 



This species has many varieties, both in this country and in Eu- 

 rope. It is indigenous in the mountainous parts of New England, 

 in the Bocky Mountains, and in various Northern localities. 

 As found in cultivation it has been derived from Europe. 



