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FESTUCA ELATIOR. 



LiNNiEus. Hooker and Arnott. Smith. Grevills. Curtis. 

 Sinclair. Deakin. Kunth. Schrader. Hull. 

 Hudson. Withering. Relhan. Sibthorp. Abbot. Ealfs. Macheight. 



plate xlvi. 



Fextnca arundinacea, 



a It 



Bucetiim elatius, 

 Schedonorus elatior, 



Bromus littoreus. 



ScHREBER. EnRTTART. VlLLAKS. 



Babington. 

 Parnell. 



LlNDLEY. 



Wilidenow. Host. Sinclair. 



The Tall Fescue Grass. 



Fesluca — ? 



Elatioi — Lofty, tall. 



A valuable agricultural Grass for moist or damp situations, 

 being' nutritive and very productive. 



Common in England, Scotland, and Ireland; found in France, 

 Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, and 

 North America. 



Stem erect, circular, smooth, and striated, bearing five to six 

 flattish, linear, acute leaves, with striated sheaths; upper sheath 

 extending beyond its leaf, and having a short ligule at the 

 apex. Inflorescence compound-panicled, the first four or five 

 spikelets arising immediately from the rachis on brief stalks, the 

 remainder on simple and compound branches. Panicle large 

 and spreading, leaning to one side. Rachis and branches rough. 

 Spikelets ovate-lanceolate, consisting of five or six slightly awned 

 florets. Calyx of two unequal acute glumes, the exterior one 

 destitute of lateral ribs, the interior one three-ribbed. Florets 



