66 TALLEB, OE MEADOW FElSCTE. 



5 to 10 flowered, tlie flowers rather remote, oblong 

 lanceolate ;- lower palet 5 nerved, scarious margined^ 

 blunt, acute, or rarely with a distinct but very short- 

 awn. The type is large, 3 to 4 feet high ; spikelets 

 about half aii inch long, in an ample and compound 

 panicle ; root perrennial, fibrous, somewhat Creeping 

 and forming large tufts. Flowers in June andl'ipens 

 seeds in July. 



This species may be easily distinguished from Pes- 

 tuca Pratensis by being much larger (nearly double) 

 in an its parts, it is also like it perrennial and fib- 

 rous rooted, grows naturally on moist, superior 

 soils in waste places, by the banks of rivers, etc. It 

 is rather a coarse like grass,, but may be sown either 

 for hay or permanent pasture on moist soils, shady 

 places, etc. It yields- an abundant crop, and not- 

 withstanding its seeming coarseness, is relished by 

 cattle generally. It stands highest, according to the 

 Woburn experiments, of any of the Fescues as to 

 the quantity of nutritive matter afforded by the whole 

 crop when cut at the time of flowering. It is a very 

 valuable grass to^sow on wet or moist lands, from its 

 rapid growth it is calculated to smother or keep 

 down the coarser kinds which naturally abound in 

 these situations. For a separate seeding from 20 to 

 28 lbs. per acre ; for a mixture with other grasses, 

 judgment must be exercised in aU mixtures of 

 grasses, whatever grass is required to prodominate 

 must be sown in excess of the others. A bushel 

 contains 14 lbs. 



