SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
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AGROSTIS SCABRA (Willd). 
(Hair Grass.) 
Stems tufted, slender, decumbent, pale green, 1 to 2 
feet high; leaves narrow, scabrous, the lower becoming 
involute; sheaths shorter than the nodes; ligule short, 
truncate; panicle loose, spreading, purplish; branches 
scabrous, capillary, flower-bearing near the apex ; outer 
glumes equal, linear, acuminate, rough on the keel; 
flowering glume hyaline, three to five-nerved at base; 
palet absent or very small. 
This worthless species is abundant in wet meadows, 
at all elevations. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture_ 9.50 
Ash_ 6.03 
Fat_ 2.41 
Albuminoid nitrogen_ 7.66 
Crude fiber__ 19.78 
Nitrogen-free extract_ 64.12 
Total_100.00 
AGROSTIS CANINA (L.). 
(Brown Bent Grass.) 
Culms three-leaved, slender, very smooth, bearing a 
spreading, slender panicle, not very scabrous, of small 
flowers; leaves mainly clustering at the ground, short and 
narrow, those of the culm about V long; branches of the 
panicle capillary, in pairs or even solitary; spikelets on 
short, hair-like pedicels; outer glume very acute, mem¬ 
branous or scarious, nearly equal; flowering glume three- 
nerved, straight, awned from the apex or near it; palet 
very minute. 
This is abundant in the mountains, and exhibits a 
great variety of forms where it makes a sod, but it is so 
small as not to be considered of agricultural value. 
