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SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
FESTUCA OVINA (L.), var. BREVIFOLIA (Watson). 
(Sheep’s Fescue.) 
Culms and sheaths smooth, erect, tufted, from 
numerous fibrous roots; leaves setaceous, the. radical 2 
inches long, those of the culm smaller; ligule two-lobed; 
panicle racemose; spikelets about four-flowered; outer 
glumes unequal; flowering glume pubescent, purplish at 
apex, tipped with a short, rough bristle; palet equal, 
toothed at apex. 
This dry land Alpine form from Algeria Park. It 
has no agricultural value. 
[See cut on opposite page.] 
FESTUCA KINGII. 
Culms about 2 feet high, stout, leafy, from running 
root-stocks, the bases of the culms clothed with the 
sheaths of dead leaves; leaves ample, glaucous, striate 
above, glabrate below, the upper leaf usually enclosing 
the base of the rigid, narrow; spicate panicle; ligule 
truncate, lacerate; branches of the panicle in 2s or 3s, 
appressed and flower bearing for about half their length ; 
spikelets about three-flowered; outer glumes lanceolate, 
acute, with broadly, scarious margins; flowering glume 
prominently five-nerved, finely pubescent under the lens; 
apex very acute, the keel scabrous ; palet shorter than the 
glume, acutely two-toothed. 
This grass grows in broad patches in broken ground 
on hillsides, in company with E lymus Sibericus and Agro- 
pyrum divergent. It was seen in one place only, at about 
8»,000 feet, on the North Poudre, and was out of 
bloom August 1st. It is a promising species. 
