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Fagus procera, Poeppig. 
Another deciduous beech of Chili, where it passes by the names 
Reule or Rauli. Of still more colossal size than the Roble. 
Wood fissile, but well adapted for staves ; it is finer in grain than 
that of F. obliqua, and much used for furniture (Dr. Philippi). 
Ferula longifolia, Fischer. 
South Russia. The aromatic long roots furnish a pleasant 
vegetable (Dr. Rosenthal). 
Festuca coiron, Steudel. 
Chili. A valuable perennial fodder grass, according to the 
testimony of Dr. Philippi. 
Festuca distichophylla, J. Hooker. 
Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales. This 
dwarf creeping grass is of great value for binding soil, forming 
rough lawns, edging garden plots on arid places, and covering 
coast sand. 
Festuca dives, F. V. Mueller* 
Victoria, from West Gipps Land to Dandenong and the sources 
of the rivers Yarra and Goulburn. One of the most magnificent 
of all sylvan grasses, not rarely 12 feet and exceptionally to 
17 feet high. Root perennial. This grass deserves to be brought 
to any forest tracts, as it prospers in shade ; along rivulets in 
deep soil it assumes its grandest forms. The large panicle affords 
nutritious forage. 
Festuca flava, F. v. Mueller. (Poa flava, Gronov , Tricuspis sesle- 
rioides, Torr., Uralepis cuprea , Kunth). 
The tall redtop-grass of the Eastern States of North America. 
A perennial sand-grass, with wide panicles. 
Festuca gigantea. Villars. 
Europe and Middle Asia. A perennial good forest-grass. 
Festuca lieterophylla, Lamarck. 
Mountains of Europe. This perennial grass attains a height of 
five feet ; it produces a proportionately great bulk of fodder, 
and serves as an admixture to grasses of hay or pasture lands, 
particularly the former (Lawson). It is best fitted for our alpine 
and highest forest-tracts, which in course of time and perhaps 
early so, will be sought for close pastoral occupation, when terri- 
torial areas will become less easily acquired. 
Festuca spadicea, Linn6. 
Alps of Europe. This grass would thrive on the heights of our 
snowy mountains. Perennial. 
