GRAMIXA. 
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inch; in var. o the spikelets are J to | inch long, and the florets 
1^ inch. 
Sheep's Fescue-Grass. 
Frencli, Fetuque des brebis. German, Schaf Schmngel. 
SPECIES IV.-P ESTUCA RUBRA. Lmn. 
Plates MDCCLXXXV. MDCCLXXXVI. 
Perennial. Loosely cicspitose or not ca^spitose. Eootstock with 
horizontal branches, with rather numerous or few tufts of radical 
leaves and flowering stems, and short or elongate stolons. Flowering 
stems erect from a curved base, stout, striate, smooth or slightly 
rough towards the apex, without any barren tufts proceeding from its 
lower knots at the time of flowering, so that it does not appear to be 
surrounded by radical leaves. Leaves all narrowly linear or linear, con- 
duplicate or channelled, or those of the flowering stem nearly flat, all 
more or less keeled, green or glaucous ; ligule obsolete, except at the 
margins of the leaf, where it is produced into an auricle on each side 
of the stem. Panicle erect or slightly secundly drooping, rather 
long, very lax, triangular and open in flower and afterwards, or linear 
and closed in flower, distichously unilateral. Lower panicle-branches 
2 at the lower nodes of the rachis, elongate, spreading in flower and 
sometimes afterwards; uppermost panicle-branches simple, and re- 
duced to short pedicels bearing single spikelets. Spikelets 3- to 
12-flowered, elliptical or oblong-elliptical. Glumes unequal, lanceolate, 
the upper one from half as long again to twice as long as the lower 
one, and one-third to one-fourth as long as the spikelet. Lower 
pale linear-lanceolate, mucronate or with an awn shorter than itself, 
very narrowly scarious at the apex, smooth or more or less 
pubescent. 
Sub-species I.— Festuca durmsCTlla. " Linn. " Sm. 
Plate MDCCLXXXV. 
F. mbra, Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. m. p. 574. Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. I. p. Ml. 
F. OTdna, Tar. /3, duriuscula, Eool: & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 557. 
F. rubra, rar. «, Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 419. 
Cjespitose or subciespitose. Rootstock shortly creeping; stolons 
very short. Leaves of the barren shoots conduplicate, slender, flaccid ; 
stem-leaves nearly flat or widely channelled, with several rather 
prominent ribs. 
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