. 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. Genus 98. GRASS FAMILY. 271. 6. Festuca ovina L. Sheep's Fescue-grass. Fig. 653. Festuca ovina L. Sp. PI. 73. 1753. Festuca ovina duriuscula Hack. Monog. Fest. Europe 89. 1882. Smooth, glabrous, culms 6'-2° tall, erect, tufted, slender, rigid, simple; no rootstocks. Sheaths usually- crowded at the base of the culm; ligule auriculate, short; blades filiform or s
. 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. Genus 98. GRASS FAMILY. 271. 6. Festuca ovina L. Sheep's Fescue-grass. Fig. 653. Festuca ovina L. Sp. PI. 73. 1753. Festuca ovina duriuscula Hack. Monog. Fest. Europe 89. 1882. Smooth, glabrous, culms 6'-2° tall, erect, tufted, slender, rigid, simple; no rootstocks. Sheaths usually- crowded at the base of the culm; ligule auriculate, short; blades filiform or setaceous, those of the culm few, i's' long, erect, the basal ones numerous; pan- icle i¥-& long, often one-sided, narrow, its branches short, usually erect or appressed; spikelets 3-5-flow- ered; empty scales unequal, acute, the first i-nerved, the second 3-nerved; flowering scales ii"-3" long, smooth, acute, short-awned. In fields and waste places, New Hampshire to North Dakota, New Jersey, Kentucky and Iowa. Variable. Prob- ably indigenous northward, but mostly naturalized from Europe. Native also of Asia. Black-twitch-grass. Hard Fescue. June-July. The so-called var. vivipara, a state of this grass with the scales wholly or partly transformed into small leaves, is found on the mountains of New England and in /arctic America. 7. Festuca brachyphylla Schultes. Short-leaved Fescue-grass. Fig. 654. Festuca brevifolia R. Br. Append. Parry's Voy. Suppl. 289. 1824. Not Muhl. 1817. Festuca brachyphylla Schultes, Mant. 3: Addit. 1, 646. 1827. Festuca ovina L. var. brevifolia S. Wats, in King's Rep. U. S. Geol. Expl. 40th Paral. 5: 389. 1871. Smooth and glabrous. Culms densely tufted, 6' or less tall, slender, erect, much exceeding the short basal leaves; sheaths coarsely striate; ligule a short scarious ring; blades very narrow, invo- lute, at least when dry; those on the culm ¥ or less long, erect or ascending; panicle 1' or less long, nearly simple, its branches ap
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