FESTUCA HETEROPHYLLA. 



VABIOUS-LEAVED FESCUE. 



Eoots fibrous, rootstock perennial, tufted. Stems 

 2 to 2| feet, numerous, erect, and smooth. LeaYes 

 various, dark green, lower ones folded, upper ones flat. 

 Panicle diffuse. Spikelets many-flowered. Empty 

 glumes unequal, shorter than flowering glumes, with 

 promuient midrib and long awn. Flowers June and 

 July. Grows in meadows and pastures throughout 

 Central Europe; introduced into Great Britain for 

 cultivation in permanent pastures. 



ANALYSIS. 



Grass in Dried at 



Natural State. 212° Palir. 



Water 41-07 — 



*Soluble albuminoids 'SI -50 



**Insoluble albuminoids 2'13 3-64 



Digestible fibre 17-81 30-22 



Woody fibre 26-21 44-48 



f Soluble mineral matter 3-18 5-39 



f finsoluble mineral matter .... 1-51 2-56 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &c. . 7-78 13-21 



100-00 100-00 



» Containing Nitrogen '05 -08 



*» Containing Nitrogen -34 -58 



Albuminoid Nitrogen *39 -06 



Non-albuminoid Nitrogen '42 '71 



Total Nitrogen jSl 137 



f Containing Silica . '36 '61 



ti Containing Silica . . '94 1-59 



146 



