. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. rass. It makes a good pasture where many othergrasses would fail. Nodding fescue (Festuca nutans) is most frequentlyseen about thickets. Sheep will eat it but do not relish it so much as theydo the sheep fescue. Shorts fescue (Festuca Shortii) is probably avariety of the same grass. POA—Many species of this genus have already been treated in full inPart I. Several of them grow with great luxuriance among the highmountains of East Tennessee. The writer has seen the densest turfs ollow spear grass (Poa annua), leafy meadow grass (Poa alsodes) andsh
. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. rass. It makes a good pasture where many othergrasses would fail. Nodding fescue (Festuca nutans) is most frequentlyseen about thickets. Sheep will eat it but do not relish it so much as theydo the sheep fescue. Shorts fescue (Festuca Shortii) is probably avariety of the same grass. POA—Many species of this genus have already been treated in full inPart I. Several of them grow with great luxuriance among the highmountains of East Tennessee. The writer has seen the densest turfs ollow spear grass (Poa annua), leafy meadow grass (Poa alsodes) andshort meadow grass (Poa brcvifolia) growing in the elevalid valleys ofJohnson county and on the crests of Iron and Roane mountains. Ken-tucky blue grass also grows well in the same -situations and gives richnessto the mountain pastures. ) Other species of this family are common along the river banks ofRast, Middle and West Tennessee. The genus Poa is p-obably the mostvaluable of all genera of grasses for grazing purposes. Seribner mentions. Teiinissei Jfsrue—Pesliica rubra glaiicescens. lourteen species as growing in Tennessee. Every species is more or lessvaluable. RATON I A—But a single species of this genus, Ratonia Pennsylvanicais of any value for grazing purposes. This grass is found in abundance in
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