SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
POA TENUIFOLIA (Nutt). 
(Bunch Grass.) 
Stems slender, tufted, 2 to 4 feet high; leaves glau¬ 
cous or green, narrowly linear, finely scabrous in the 
glaucous type, and glabrous in the green-leaved type; 
iigule elongated, pointed; panicle narrow, loose, few to 
many-flowered, nodding; branches slender, scabrous, in 
2s or 3s, flower bearing for about half their length; 
spikelets about five-flowered ; outer glumes unequal, very 
acute, rough on the keel; flowering glume lanceolate, with 
broadly erose or acute, bronzy apex; puberulent in one 
type; silky, hairy on the margins and mid-rib, below the 
apex, in another; palet about equalling its glume, biden- 
tate at apex. 
This valuable hay grass occurs in two well-marked 
forms in the mountain meadows. It is the finest of the 
Poets , and should prove valuable under cultivation. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture_ 8.30 
Ash_ 9.45 
Fat_ _ 2.92 
Albuminoid nitrogen_ 8.76 
Crude fiber_19.40 
Nitrogen-free extract_59.47 
Total_100.00 
