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SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
DEYEUXIA CANADENSIS (Beauv.). 
(Blue Joint; Small, Reed Grass.)' 
Culms 3 to 6 feet high, and with the sheath finely 
scabrous ; leaves very rough, 6 to 15 inches long ; sheaths 
shorter than the nodes, hairy at the throat; ligule elong¬ 
ated ; panicle oblong or pyramidal, spreading, purplish, 
6 inches to 1 foot long; branches in 5s, very scabrous; 
outer glumes equal, lanceolate, scabrous; flowering glume 
hyaline, toothed at apex, bearing a slender awn, about the 
length of the glume; hairs at base copious, equaling the 
glume; palet shorter than its glume. 
This is one of the most robust and leafy of the native 
grasses. It is confined chiefly to the mountain regions, 
w T here it grows in isolated clumps along streams or in 
moist meadows. Its agricultural value is not known. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture_ 7.98 
Ash_ 13.20 
Fat_ 3.46 
Albuminoid nitrogen_ 7.80 
Crude fiber_ 18.85 
Nitrogen-free extract_ 56.69 
Total_100.00 
