106 
100 lbs. contain: — organic matter 73.1 °/o, composed of: — 
Nitrogenous matter (Nitrogen < 6.25). ‘ ; , Phy 
(albuminoid-nitrogen 1,29 °/o, non-albuminoid nitrogen 
0.404 °/o) 
Fat . ; ‘ ; . : , ; 3.0 °/o 
Fibre. ' ; : ; . ; ’ , 22.6 %/o 
Non-nitrogenous extractives : ' . 386.9 %/o 
‘This analysis shews that the nutritive value is higher than that of good hay, and it 
is probable that the plants found growing naturally on the Alps contain even more nutri- 
tive matter than those analysed. 
Harvesting Seed and amount to be sown. By the end of June or the middle of July, the seed 
the seed. jg ripe, the culms are then cut and allowed to ripen in the barn; the further treatinent 1s 
similar to that of smooth-stalked meadow-grass. 
Non-sexual To reproduce the viviparous yariety, the bulbils are simply stripped off and scattered 
ee ALE S over the ground, On August 2"? 1882 1 scattered a handful of such butbils over a plot 
i ‘ of ground 25 feet square in my experimental field. Development soon commenced and by 
the end of April 18883 culms had been produced. On May 26% the plot was mown and 
a second crop was obtained during the same year. The plants grew in such abundance 
as to cover the whole plot. 
In mountainous districts this method of reproduction may be followed, and fine 
pasturage obtained with no expense for seed. This plan succeeds best in mountainous 
districts with moist atmosphere. The most suitable time for scattering the bulbils is 
between the middle of May and the beginning of September, 
Red fescue. 
Festuca rubra, Hackel. 
Under this name we understand, with Hackel, fescues without bulbous thickening at 
the base, and with a creeping (stoloniferous) mode of growth; any tufts which they form 
are loose. rarely compact. The lateral shoots are all or nearly all vaginal. The leaves 
are folded in the bud; when old, they either remain folded and bristle-like or lose the 
fold and become flat. The leaves of the barren shoots 7. e. the radical leaves are usually 
folded permanently, while those of the culm open out and become flat. In rare cases, 
all the leaves may remain folded or all may become flat. The ligule of the culm-leaves 
has two ears; the leaf-sheath is complete, and the ovary either glabrous or hairy. The 
only essential difference between Festuca rubra and Festuca ovina is the presence of 
extravaginal branches in the former. 
The following varieties of red fescue can be distinguished: 
1) Creeping red fescue, Festuca rubra, L. (Festuca rubra, subsp. eu-rubra, var. 
genuina, Hackel). 
2) Tufted red fescue, Festuca fallax, Thuill. (Festuca rubra, subsp, eu-rubra, var. 
fallax, Hackel). The term «fallax», (deceitful) is applied to this grass because by its tufted 
growth it simulates sheep’s fescue. 
