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TALL FESCUE. 



In addition to its qualities as a pasture grass, it is 

 said to make a very good quality of hay, much relished 



by cattle. The Eandall grass 

 is highly spoken of for fall 

 and winter pastures in the 

 I climate of Virginia, and, as it 

 often remains green under 

 the snow through the winter, 

 it is not unfrequently called 

 " Evergreen grass." 



The Tall Fescue Grass 

 {Featuca elatior) is also found 

 pretty commonly in moist . 

 meadows and around farm- 

 houses. Its panicle is con- 

 tracted, erect, or somewhat 

 .drooping, with shortbranches", 

 spreading in all directions; 

 spikelets crowded, with five to 

 ten flowers, rather remote, ob- 

 Ij long, lanceolate ; leaves flat- 

 tish, linfear, acute ; stems two 

 to four feet high ; root perenni- 

 al, fibrou s, somewhat creepin g, 

 and forming large tufts. Fig. 

 74 shows this plant 

 at the time of flower- 

 ing, and Fig. 75 a 

 magnified spikelet of 

 the same. Flowers in 

 June and July. Intro- 

 duced from Europe. 

 It is a nutritive 

 tig. M. Tan Fescue GrasB. Kg. 16. and productiVe grass, 



