30 POALES 
Inflorescence open, its branches spreading. 5. F. scabrella. 
Inflorescence narrow and spikelike, 6, F. confinis. 
1, Festuca octoflora Walt. Slender Fescue-grass. 
In dry sandy soil all over the state. Alliance; Ashland; Box Butte 
County; Broken Bow; Callaway; Kearney; Halsey; Lincoln; Thed- 
ford; Valentine. 
2. Festuca ovina L. Sheep’s Fescue-grass. 
In prairies throughout the state. Box Butte County; Broken Bow; 
Lincoln; Thomas County; War Bonnet Canon. 
3. Festuca elatior L. Tall or Meadow Fescue-grass, 
Sometimes escapes from cultivation. Atkinson; Grand Island; Valen- 
tine. 
4. Festuca nutans Willd. - 
In the eastern part of the state. Elmwood; Lincoln; Nebraska City; 
Fort Niobrara; Omaha; Nemaha; Ponca; Weeping Water. 
5. Festuca scabrella Torr. 
Custer County. 
6. Festuca confinis Vasey. 
Festuca watsoni Nash. 
In the western part of the state. Crawford; Harrison. 
3. Puccinellia. 145. 
1. Puccinellia airoides (Nutt.) Wats. & Coult. 
In western parts of the state. Belmont; Crawford; Cheyenne County; 
Lodge Pole; Long Pine. 
4. Panicularia. (Glyceria). 142. 
Second empty scale about 1 mm. long. P, nervata. 
Second empty scale 2 mm, long ur more. P. americana. 
1. Panicularia nervata (Willd.) Kuntze. 
Common in wet places, especially in the western parts of the state. 
Anselmo; Belmont; Emerson; Lincoln; Long Pine; Newark; Saun- 
ders County; Valentine. 
2. Panicularia americana (Torr.) MacM. 
Glyceria grandis Wats. 
Frequent along streams in the sandhill regions. Callaway; Emerson; 
Mullen; Thedford. 
5, Scolochloa. 142. 
1. Scolochloa festucacea (Willd.) Link. 
In marshy places in the western part of the state. 
6. Poa. 87. 
Annuals, rarely over 2 dm. tall. 1. P. annua. 
Perennials, usually taller, 
Stems flattened. 9. P. compressa. 
Stems not flattened, round or nearly so. 
Flowering scales with cobweb-like hairs at the base of the flowers. 
Flowering scales with all 5 nerves prominent. 
Branches of the inflorescence erect or spreading, with many 
spikelets. 4. P. pratensis. 
