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related to the last two species. It possesses narrow, flat leaves, 

 pale red spikelets, and creeping rhizomes. 



The limits of the last three species of Festuca are ill-defined, 

 as a large number of varieties exist which are intermediate in 

 character between them. 



Little or no attempt is made by seedsmen to supply ' seeds ' 

 of these species true to name, and for practical purposes there is 

 no necessity to do so. 



Genus Bromus. 



Panicles spreading : spikelets large with five or more flowers : 

 empty glumes, unequal, acute : flowering glume generally with a 

 divided tip and an awn which arises just below the tip. Styles 

 lateral on the ovary. 



An extensive genus of coarse, harsh or hairy-leaved grasses, 

 the species of which are nearly all useless or of small importance 

 as forage plants. 



Awnless Brome-Grass : Hungarian Forage-Grass {Bromus 

 inermis Leyss.). — A tall perennial grass with long rhizomes and 

 smooth leaves sometimes over half an inch broad. It is grown 

 extensively in Hungary, alone or in mixture with lucerne, on dry 

 soils where it gives very large yield of grass, which if cut early 

 makes fairly nutritious hay. 



It grows slowly in spring, but two cuts are often secured 

 on the Continent in one season when the plant is thoroughly 

 established. 



Our experience with it in this country has not been successful 

 even on the looser soils, for which it has been specially recom- 

 mended. 



Sclirader's Brome-Grass (Bromus Schraderi Kunth.). — A 

 perennial grass with harsh broad leaves, recommended some- 

 times on account of its productiveness on thin soils. 



After several years' trial we cannot advise its being grown by 

 the British farmer, as it rapidly becomes coarse, grows in massive 



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