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50. Festuca L. 



a. Flowers awned or bristle-pointed (b). 



a. Flowers awnless or nearly so (d). 



6. Awns conspicuous, about equaling or exceeding the flowering glume 146 



b. Awns much shorter than the lanceolate flowering glumes (c). 



c. Panicle few-flowered, contracted; spikelets ovate, about 4-flowered 147 



c. Panicle oblong, spreading; spikelets nearly terete, 5-7-flowered 148 



d. Panicle contracted, with short ascending branches (e). 



d. Panicle very loose, with spreading or reflexed branches (/). 



e. Spikelets 6-9-flowered, 6-9 lines long, leaves a foot long 150 



e. Spikelets 2-5-flowered, about 3 lines long, leaves about 8 in. long 149 



f. Spikelets 3-5-flowered, 3 lines long; culm 2-4 feet high 151 



f. Like the last, but stouter, and spikelets about 5-flowered 152 



146. Festuca tenella Willd.; Small Fescue. 



147. F. ovina L.; Sheep's Fescue grass. 



148. F. duriuscida L.; Harsh Fescue grass. 



149. F. elatior L.; Meadow, or Tall Fescue; Randall, or Evergreen grass. 



150. F. pratensis Huds.; Meadow Fescue grass. 



151. F. nutans Willd.; Drooping Fescue. 



152. F. Shortii Kunth.; Short's Fescue. 



51. Bbomus L. 



a. Lower glume 3-5-nerved, second glume 5-9-nerved (6). 



a. Lower glume 1-nerved, second glume 3-nerved or obscurely 5-nerved 158 



b. The awn small or scarcely any (c). 

 b. The awn evident or conspicuous (d). 



c. Panicle 6-10 inches long, spikelets 1-1| inches long 153 



c. Panicle 4-6 inches long, spikelets oblong-ovate, turgid 154 



d. Awn as long as or longer than the flowering glume (e). 

 d. Awn shorter (/). 



e. Spikelets oblong-ovate, turgid, sheaths sometimes hairy 155 



e. The conical-ovate spikelets and leaves downy 156 



/. Panicle spreading, spikelets of 8-10 rather distant flowers 154 



/. Panicle simple, small; spikelets 7-12-flowered, densely silky 157 



153. Bromus unioloides Willd.; Schrader's grass, Rescue grass. 



154. B. secalinus L.; Cheat, Chess. 



155. B. racemosus L.; Upright Chess. 



156. B. mollis L.; Soft Chess. 



157. B. Kalmii Gray; Wild Chess. 



158. B. ciliatus .L.; Ciliate Chess. 



52. Lolium L. 



a. Spikelets 7-11-flowered, awnless or short-awned 159 



159. Lolium perenne L.; Rye grass, Italian Rye grass. 



53. Ageopyeum Beauv. 



a. Awn when present not longer than the flowering glume (b). 



a. Flowering glume and sometimes the outer glumes long awned (c). 



b. Culm 2-3 feet high, spike narrow, close, 3-6 inches long 160 



b. Like the preceding, but no running root-stocks, spike narrow, slim 160£ 



b. Like the first, but more rigid and stouter, of a light bluish-green color 161 



c. Spike more or less nodding (not strict), awn of flowering glume twice its length 162 



c. Spike rigid and strict, awn of flowering glume half or fully its length 163 



160. Agropyrum repens Beauv.; Couch, Quick, Quitch, Wheat, Twitch or Dog grass. 

 160 j. A. tenerum Vasey; Wheat grass, Clump Wheat grass. 



161. A. glaucum R. & S.; Western Wheat grass, Colorado Blue-Joint, Colorado 



Blue-Stem, Wild Quack grass, Gumbo grass. 



