SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
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PANICUM sanguinale; (L.). 
(Crab Grass; Finger Grass.) 
Culm 1 to 2 feet, smooth, geniculate and rooting at 
the lower joints, bearing 4 to 12 slender, spreading, pur¬ 
plish spikes. 
An introduced annual grass, seen occasionally in 
cultivated ground. Said to be valuable at the South. 
FESTUCA MICROSTACHYS (Nutt). 
(Small Fescue; Western Fescue.) 
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Culms about 1° high, slender, growing in tufts, 
smooth or pubescent; leaves short and narrow; ligule 
very short and small; panicle 1 to 4' long, spicate, pur¬ 
plish ; branches in pairs, one of them nearly sessile; 
glumes pulverulent, the outer acute, keeled; flower glume 
rounded on back, keeled at apex and terminated by a 
short, scabrous awn; palet equal to the glume, short 
awned. 
This grass is too small to be of any value. 
FESTUCA TENELLA (Willd). 
Culms filiform, about 1 foot high; leaves filiform, 1 
to 4 inches long, panicle contracted, somewhat one-sided; 
outer glumes subulate, unequal; flowering glume rough, 
involute, awned. 
This species occurs in company with Festuca scabrella 
and Festuca ovina. It is not abundant, so that but a small 
amount of the seed was procured. It cannot have much 
value, owing to its lack of size and leaves. 
