FESTUCA OYINA. 



SHEEP'S EESCI7E. 



Eootstock perennial, creeping or tufted. Stems 6 

 to 12 inches, erect, and densely tufted, rough at- the 

 upper part and smooth below. Leaves very slender, 

 chiefly radical, upper ones rolled ; sheath smooth ; 

 ligule long and bilobed. Panicle small, erect, con- 

 tracted, and subsecund. Spikelets many-flowered, 

 small, upright. Empty glumes shorter than flowering 

 glumes, unequal and acute. Flowering glumes small, 

 with minute awn. Palea toothed, with hairy nerves. 

 Flowers June and July. Grows in dry, hilly pastures 

 throughout Europe, Siberia, North Africa, North 

 America, and Australia. 



ANALYSIS. 



Grass in 

 Natural State. 



Water 55-62 



*Soluble albuminoids 1-06 



**InBoluble albuminoids 1'54 



Digestible fibre 16-72 



Woody fibre 15-31 



fSolable mineral matter 1-59 



ff Insoluble mineral matter .... 1-72 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &c. . 6-44 



100-00 



Dried at 

 212° Fate. 



2-44 



3-37 



37-77 



34-49 



3-60 



3-88 



14-45 



« Containing Nitrogen 

 »» Containing Nitrogen 



Non-albuminoid Nitrogen 



Albimiinoid Nitrogen 

 Total Nitrogen 



t Containing Silica 

 tt Containing Silica 



100-00 



•93 



-54 



1-47 

 1-68 



148 



