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meadow fescue-grass. June-August. Introduced from Europe. 

 General. 



2. Festuca nutans Willd. Nodding Fescue-grass. A perennial 

 grass with simple, erect, slender stems, 2-3 ft. high, with glabrous 

 or pubescent leaf-sheaths and a very loose panicle whose branches 

 are secund and spikelet-bearing near the ends, at first erect and 

 finally spreading. Spikelets lanceolate, 3-5-flowered ; lemma oblong- 

 ovate, acute, very faintly nerved. 



In moist woods and copses. June, July. General. 



3. Festuca ovina L. Sheep Fescue-grass. A densely tufted 

 perennial ]/ 2 -2 ft. high, with crowded sheaths at the base and pale 

 green filiform or setaceous blades. Panicle contracted after bloom- 

 ing ; spikelets with rather loose flowers ; lemma smooth or slightly 

 scabrous, acute and short awned. Many varieties. 



A good pasture grass. In fields and waste places. June, July. 

 From Europe. Erie, Franklin, Wayne. 



4. Festuca capillata Lam. Filiform Fescue-grass. A densely 

 tufted perennial with slender, smooth and glaucous stems, J^-lJ^ 

 ft. high, and with filiform leaf blades. Panicle contracted with erect 

 branches; spikelets 4-5-flowered ; lemma acute, unawned. 



In fields and along roadsides. June, July. From Europe. Cuya- 

 hoga County. 



5. Festuca octoflora Walt. Slender Fescue-grass. A slender, 

 small, erect annual, often tufted, ^-1^ ft. high, with sheaths shorter 

 than the internodes and narrowly linear usually involute blades. 

 Panicle narrow, erect, usually reduced to a more or less secund 

 raceme; spikelets 6-13-flowered ; lemma usually very scabrous, 

 acuminate into a straight awn ; stamens 2. 



In dry sterile or sandy soil. June- August. Ashtabula, Erie, 

 Lucas, Ashland, Delaware, Licking, Lawrence. 



6. Festuca myuros L. Rat-tail Fescue-grass. A smooth, glab- 

 rous annual, 1-2 ft. high, with solitary or small tufted stems and 

 overlapping sheaths. Leaf-blades smooth, linear, involute, erect. 

 Panicle usually 1-sided, contracted, its branches appressed ; spikelets 

 3-6-flowered ; lemma linear-lanceolate, scabrous above, attenuate into 

 a slender awn ; stamen 1. 



In dry fields and waste places. June, July. From Europe. Lake 

 County. 



4. Panicularia Fabr. Manna-grass. 



Mostly tall, perennial, hydrophytic grasses with simple stems 

 and terminal panicles. Spikelets few-many-rlowered, terete or some- 

 what flattened; empty glumes unequal, 1-3-nerved; lemmas rounded 



