SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
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AGROPYRUM DIVERGENS (Nees). 
Stems wiry, slender, erect or sometimes geniculate, 2 
to 3 feet high, from running root-stocks; sheaths loose, 
striate, shorter than the nodes; ligule very short, truncate; 
leaves narrowly linear, glaucous or green, numerous; 
panicle slender, nodding; spikelets about five-flowered ; 
outer glumes nearly equal, scabrous, three-nerved, short, 
rough awned; flowering glume scabrous, rounded on the 
back, obscurely five-nerved, the apex terminating in a 
rough, divergent awn; palet shorter than its glume, 
truncate. 
This species grows in stout clumps in the clefts of 
rocks in exposed situations, in company with Flyman 
JSibericus and Festuca Kingii. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture_ 8.40 
Ash—'._ 8.70 
Fat_ 2.31 
Albuminoid nitrogen_ 6.87 
Crude fiber_ 23.52 
Nitrogen-free extract_ 58.60 
Total_100.00 
AGROPYRUM STRIGOSUM (Beauv.). 
About 1 foot high, growing in tufts; sheaths smooth ; 
stem leaves narrow, strigose, pulverulent on the upper 
surface, smooth below, glaucous; spike 6' long, slender; 
outer glumes acute; flowering glume five-nerved, with 
rough, divergent awn. 
This species at high elevations, usually, and in dry 
soil. Worthy of trial, perhaps, as a dry land grass Said 
not to have a running root-stock. 
