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FESTUCA GIGANTEA. 



VlLLAES. HOOKEE AND ArNOTT. SMITH. KoCH. LlNDLET. BaBINGTON. 

 KlTNTH. MaCEEIGHT. 



PLATE XI.VII. 



Bromus gig aniens, 



Bucetum giganteum, 

 Festuca triflora, 

 Bromus trijlorus, 



Linnaeus. Hooker. Willdenow. 



Hudson. Citbtis. Knapp. 



Schbadeb. Schreber. Lindley. 



Deakin. Ralfs. Abbot. 



Sibthorp. Host. Leers. 



Ehrhart. Weigel. "Witherino. 



Parnell. 



Smith. 



Linn^us. Willdenow. Oedeb. 



The Tall Bearded Fescue Grass. 



Festuca — P 



Qigantea — Gigantic. 



Growing in damp shady situations, and of but little agri- 

 cultural value, as although there is an abundant produce, it is 

 of but little nourishment for cattle. 



Common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Found also in 

 France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, and 

 Denmark. 



Stem upright, circular, smooth, and striated, bearing five or 

 six broad, lanceolate, flat, rough leaves, with striated sheaths; 

 upper one longer than its leaf, and having at its apex a brief 

 decurrent ligule. Joints five. Inflorescence simple or compound 

 panicled, the lower ones being branched. Panicle large, loose, 

 and leaning to one side. Spikelets ovate-lanceolate, mostlv of 

 five awned florets. Calyx of two unequal, acute, three-ribbed 



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