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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 34-2 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, p 2 -l 34 
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, 34-1/4 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-flowered, terete or some¬ 
what flattened; empty glumes unequal, 1-3-nerved; lemmas rounded 
