. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 272 GRAMINEAE. Vol. Festuca elatior L. Tall or Meadow Fescue-grass. Fig. 656. Festuca elatior L. Sp. PI. 75- 1753- Festuca pratensis Huds. Fl. Angl. 37. 1762. F. elatior var. pratensis A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 634. 1867. Culms 2°-5° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths shorter than the internodes; ligule very short; blades 4-15' long, 2"-4&quo
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 272 GRAMINEAE. Vol. Festuca elatior L. Tall or Meadow Fescue-grass. Fig. 656. Festuca elatior L. Sp. PI. 75- 1753- Festuca pratensis Huds. Fl. Angl. 37. 1762. F. elatior var. pratensis A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 634. 1867. Culms 2°-5° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths shorter than the internodes; ligule very short; blades 4-15' long, 2"-4" wide, flat, smooth beneath, more or less rough above; panicle 4'-i4' in length, often nodding at the top, simple to very compound, the branches ascending or erect, 2'-8' long; spikelets 5-9- flowered, 4i"-6" long; empty scales acute, the first 1-3-nerved, the second 3-5-nerved; flowering scales acute or short-pointed, smooth and glabrous, 2i"-3" long, indistinctly 5-nerved. In fields and waste places throughout the United States and southern Canada. Naturalized from Europe and culti- vated for hay. Variable. Dover-grass, Randall or Ever- green-grass. Frisky (Meadow)-grass. July-Aug. 10. Festuca Shortii Kunth. Short's Fescue-grass. Fig. 657. Festuca Shortii Kunth; Wood, Class-book 794. 1861. Festuca nutans var. palustris Wood, Bot. & Fl. 399. 1873. Culms 2°-4° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths much shorter than the internodes; ligule very short; blades s'-io' long, i"-3" wide, flat, smooth be- neath, rough above; panicle 3'-/ in length, open, the branches spreading or ascending, rarely erect, spikelet- bearing from the middle or below, the lower il'-z¥ long; spikelets broadly obovate, when mature, 3-6-flow- ered, 2i"-z" long; empty scales acute, unequal, scabrous on the nerves, the first 1-3-nerved, the second 3-nerved; flowering scales about 2" long, smooth, obtuse or acutish, faintly nerved. In woods and
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