SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
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DANTHONIA INTERMEDIA (Vasey). 
(Wild Oat Grass.) 
Stems smooth, not tufted, 6 to 24 inches long; leaves 
smooth; sheaths loose, hairy at the throat; panicle 
narrow, nodding; rays solitary, two to three-flowered, 
hairy at the points of the axis; outer glumes much 
exceeding the florets, acuminate; flowering glume con¬ 
spicuously two-toothed and very villous below the 
middle, especially on the margins; the awn coarse, diver¬ 
gent, flat and twisted below the middle; palet scarious, 
acuminate, two-toothed and two-nerved. 
This grass occurs at from 8,000 to 9,000 feet. At the 
latter elevation it is much reduced in size. Its value has 
not been determined. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture_ 8.38 
Ash_ 4.68 
Fat_ 2.56 
Albuminoid nitrogen-_ 9.48 
Crude fiber_ 18.71 
Nitrogen-free extract--- 64.57 
Total_100.00 
DANTHONIA CALIFORNIO A (Boland). 
Culms 1 to 2 feet high, with narrow, pointed, scarious 
leaves; sheaths hairy, especially at the throat; panicle 2 
lo 3' long, of three to five, nearly sessile, erect spikelets; 
outer glumes unequal, three-nerved, purplish, somewhat 
scarious, acute, keeled above, nearly equal and exceeding 
the florets of the spikelet; flowering glume smooth on the 
base, margins below fringed with long, white hairs (silky), 
acutely cleft at the apex ; a divergent awn, with broadish, 
twisted, ciliate base, from the base of the cleft. 
This grass is indigenous to California, Oregon and 
Rocky Mountains. Probably of not much agricultural 
walue. 
