. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 46 Mountain foxtail (fig. 14), which is also sometimes called mouutain timothy, has much the appearance of true mountain or alpine timothy, but is usually more robust and of a softer texture and produces a better looking hay, much like that from the cultivated meadow foxtail {Alojyecnrus 2)rattnsis), which this grass resembles in habit of growth. Although found throughout the Rocky Mountain region, and having similar altitudiual limits, it is much less common as a rule than alpine timothy. It is abundant in the rich, moist
. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 46 Mountain foxtail (fig. 14), which is also sometimes called mouutain timothy, has much the appearance of true mountain or alpine timothy, but is usually more robust and of a softer texture and produces a better looking hay, much like that from the cultivated meadow foxtail {Alojyecnrus 2)rattnsis), which this grass resembles in habit of growth. Although found throughout the Rocky Mountain region, and having similar altitudiual limits, it is much less common as a rule than alpine timothy. It is abundant in the rich, moist meadows of the Spanish Basin and elsewhere in south- western Montana, and makes a remarkably luxuriant growth, frequently reaching a height of three or four feet, and is one of the most promising of the native grasses for cultiyation in meadows at the higher altitudes. ' Several of the native brome- grasses are of great value in the native meadows at an altitude of from 5,000 to 8,000 feet in Wyoming and Montana and from 0,000 to 9,500 in Colorado. The most valuable of these brome-grasses are short-awned brome [Bromus breviaristatus) (see fig. 15) and Western brome {Bromus pumpellianns). Both are coarse-growing perennials and occur throughout the Kocky Mountain region, chiefly in the rather dry valleys and "i^arks;'^ the former selecting the moister situations and the latter the drier ones. Although they are often found growing together, Western brome-grass seems to have a somewliat higher alti- tudiual limit, its point of best development usually ranging from 500 to 1,000 feet above that of short-awned brome. The latter is occasionally abundant down as low as 4,000 feet in central Montana, while the former is but rarely found at that altitude. In northern Wyoming short-awned brume is most abundant at from 5,000 to 7,000 feet and Western brome at from 0,000 to 8,000. Both of these grasses have been cultivated in some parts of the Northwest with suc- cess and promise to be
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