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SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
POA ANDINA (Nutt). 
Culms tufted, wiry, smooth, 6 to 18 inches high; 
radical leaves half as long as the stem; stem leaves about 
2 and the blade about 1 inch long, or almost wanting; 
panicle 2 or 3 inches long, one sided, very slender; 
branches in pairs, scabrous, erect; spikelets three to 
seven-flowered; outer glumes acute, rough on the keel, 
scarious margined, the lower one-nerved, the upper three- 
nerved at base; flowering glume obtuse, five-nerved at 
base, softly pubescent below the middle, and with a 
broadly scarious erose, sometimes purplish apex; palet a& 
long as the glumes, pubescent on the nerves. 
Abundant at 6,000 feet in the mountains, where it 
forms a chief constituent of the native meadows, when not 
too wet. Its agricultural value has not been determined. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture__ 3.22 
Ash___ 8.41 
Fat_ 1.80 
Albuminoid nitrogen_ 4.06 
Crude fiber_ 22.78 
Nitrogen-free extract_62.95 
Total 
100.00 
