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SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
JUNCUS MERTENSIANUS (Meyer). 
(Bog Rush.) 
Stems compressed, leafy, erect, about 2 feet high, from 
matted root-stocks ; leaves compressed and equitant, erose 
form; sheaths loose, scarious, margined with ligules; 
heads solitary, densely flowered, shining, dark brown; 
sepals pungently pointed with broad, scarious margins, 
exceeding the capsule; stamens six; capsule obovate, 
three-lobed. 
This is highly valued in common with other 
species of the same genus. All are known, by stockmen, 
as wire grass. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture-._ 8.30 
Ash_ 6.15 
Fat__ 1.95 
Albuminoid nitrogen_ 9.00 
Crude fiber_ 38.66 
Nitrogen-free extract___ 44.24 
Total_100.00 
JUNCUS BUFONIUS (L.). 
Stems tufted, slender, branching from the base, 3 to 
6' high, mostly with one-sided, dichotomous branches; 
outer sepals greenish, nerved, acute, longer than the three 
inner and entirely scarious sepals; seeds somewhat 
angled, very small, obtuse; pods oblong, obtuse. 
In North Park. Too small to be of any value. 
MUNROA SQUARROSA (Torr.). 
(False Buffalo Grass.) 
Annual, with fasciculute branches; leaves V or less 
in length, veiny, scarious and scabrous margined tip; 
spikelets mostly three-capitate; outer glume one-nerved, 
small; flower three-nerved, the central prolonged into 
an awn. 
This is a weed, and widely distributed in thin 
pastures and native meadows. 
