. 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. 12, GRASS FAMILY. 273 Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill. Great Fescue-grass. Fig. 659. Bromus giganteus L. Sp. PI. 77. 1753. Festuca gigantea Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2: no. 1787. Culms 2°-4° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths usually overlapping; ligule 1" long; blades s'-i° long or more, bright green, 2"-6" wide, flat, rough; p
. 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. 12, GRASS FAMILY. 273 Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill. Great Fescue-grass. Fig. 659. Bromus giganteus L. Sp. PI. 77. 1753. Festuca gigantea Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2: no. 1787. Culms 2°-4° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths usually overlapping; ligule 1" long; blades s'-i° long or more, bright green, 2"-6" wide, flat, rough; panicle 7'-i2' in length, loose, narrow, the branches erect or as- cending, the lower 2'-4' long; spikelets 3-7-flowered; empty scales acuminate, smooth and glabrous, the first 1-3-nerved, shorter than the 3-5-nerved second; flowering scales, ex- clusive of awns, about 3" long, faintly 5-nerved, slightly scabrous, minutely 2-toothed at the apex, bearing an awn 6"-8" long. In waste places, Maine to southern New York. Adventive from Europe. July-Aug. Festuca altaica Trin. Rough Fescue-grass. Fig. 660. F. altaica Trin. in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 1: 109. 1829. Culms i°-3° tall, erect, simple, usually rough below the panicle. Sheaths overlapping, smooth; ligule a ring of very short hairs; blades rough, 1" wide or less, those of the culm 1-3' long, erect, the basal flat, much longer and readily deciduous from the sheaths, involute in drying; panicle 3'-4' in length, open, its branches ascending or the lower widely spreading; spikelets 3-5-flowered, about 4" long; empty scales scarious, unequal, smooth, the first i-nerved, the sec- ond longer, 3-nerved; flowering scales about 3" long, scabrous, often bearing a short awn 1" long or less. Labrador to Alaska, south to Quebec, North Dakota and British Columbia. Summer. Mistaken for Festuca scabrella Torr. in our first edition. 14. Festuca confinis Vasey. Watson's Fes- cue-grass. Fig. 661. Poa Kingii S. Wats.
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