SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
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POA C/ESIA, var. STRICTA (Gray). 
This variety occurs with the species, and is about 12 
inches high, with a slender, purplish-red panicle, 3 to 4 
inches long; leaves small, especially on the culm; ligule 
short, truncate or pointed; outer glumes very acute, espe¬ 
cially the lower; flowering glume hairy on the margins, 
and mid-rib below the middle; apex bronzy, scarious; 
palet about equalling its glume, ciliate on the nerves. 
Too small to be of value. 
POA ALSODES (Gray). 
(Tall Spear Grass ; Wood Grass ; Wood Spear Grass.) 
Culms very slender, erect, 2 to 3 feet high, acutely 
two-angled at base; sheaths loose, retrorsely scabrous; 
leaves about three on the stem, broadly or narrowly linear, 
3 to 4 inches long; panicle 1 foot long, branches chiefly 
in 4s, whorled, widely spreading, capillary, pendent, 
flowering toward the apex ; outer glumes acute; flowering 
glume keeled, apex scarious, acute, cob-webby below the 
middle on the nerves ; palet shorter than its glume, two¬ 
toothed. 
This species in rich soils in the shade of willows 
along water courses, at 6,000 feet. Probably of no agri¬ 
cultural value. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture_*-,— 8.72 
Ash_ 9.73 
Fat_ 2.13 
Albuminoid nitrogen- 3.32 
Crude fiber_ 23.30 
Nitrogen-free extract_61.52 
Total 
100.00 
