. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 40 from a few inches to a foot or two in height. Perhaps the most generally dis- tributed of our valuable pasture grasses, as it occurs in greater or less abun- dance on both plains and foothills, as svell as to some extent in the mountains. It is quite variable, also, in appearaiice, depending no doubt largely ui)on the stage of development that it has reached and to some extent npon its habitat. IMn'e Blutls, July G (3620); Beaver Basin, July 22 (3808); p:van8ton, July 28 (3850); Woods Landing, August 7 (3915); Battle La
. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 40 from a few inches to a foot or two in height. Perhaps the most generally dis- tributed of our valuable pasture grasses, as it occurs in greater or less abun- dance on both plains and foothills, as svell as to some extent in the mountains. It is quite variable, also, in appearaiice, depending no doubt largely ui)on the stage of development that it has reached and to some extent npon its habitat. IMn'e Blutls, July G (3620); Beaver Basin, July 22 (3808); p:van8ton, July 28 (3850); Woods Landing, August 7 (3915); Battle Lake, August 16 (4040); Wagon Hound Creek, August 21 (4100). Melica bulbosa (ieycr (BiMsors Melic-gkass, fig. 13).âA tall, handsome, grass, bearing small bulbs at the base of the straight stems; heads slender, but the spikeh'ts plump; 2 to 3 feet high. An excellent grass, but usually of very scat- tering growth ; often protected from stock by growing among the undcrshrubs on Ihe banks of ravines. Not very widely distributed, in fact, observed only a few times in the foothills, (ireeu Top, June 29 (3265); Slieep Mountain, July 3 (3306); Battle Lake, August 16 (4023). Distichlis spicata Greene (Salt- <ii{ASs). â Leaves and stems somewhat slender, but rather \ "^^^ II III \li IIW stiff", from a few inches to a foot Jl ^£ /If H M ormorehigh. It isdistinctively I f ^^ & \ 11 M III /â ! " grass of the alkaline Hats, V x^d \ III III III mIII growing fairly well where salts are present in the soil to such an extent that other grasses can not live at all. It likes mois- ture, but is not absent from com- paratively dry ground. The sod it forms is often close, but always harsh and disagreeable. In the desert regions it is valu- able for the pasture it furnishes about the springs that serve as watering places for the stock on the opasture grass on the drier bench lands, butof little value in tlir meadows, for it is past its prime before the other grasses are ready
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