SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
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GLYCERIA AQUATICA (Smith), 
(Reed Meadow Grass.) 
Culms leafy, 3 to 6 feet high, two-angled, very stout, 
glabrous; leaves 1 to 2 feet long, rough on the edges; 
ligule truncate; panicle purplish, much branched, spread¬ 
ing ; branches in half whorls, naked below; spikelets on 
capillary pedicels, five to nine-flowered; outer glumes 
ovate, unequal, one-nerved, whitish; flowering glumes 
entire at rounded apex, seven-nerved; palet equaling its 
glume, two-nerved, two-toothed. 
This grass is found in wet places at all elevations. 
In the mountains it furnishes a considerable amount of 
rough feed during winter. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture_ 8.00 
Ash_ 19.06 
Fat_ 2.98 
Albuminoid nitrogen_ 9.45 
Crude fiber_ 22.21 
Nitrogen-free extract_46.30 
Total_100.00 
GLYCERIA DISTANS (Wahl.). 
(White Spear Grass.) 
A stout, tufted, perennial grass, from running root¬ 
stocks, 1 to 2 feet high; branches in 5s below and 3s 
above, unusually pubescent; leaves smooth, broad; lower 
glumes very unequal, membranous, the smaller acute, the 
larger erose, rounded ; flowering glume prominently four 
or five-nerved, scarious tipped; upper palet emarginate, 
lower one truncate. 
This grass has but little value. 
