. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. 544 COMMON GRASSES OF THE FARM Meadow fescue produces its full yield only after three years growth from the seed and is therefore most suited for the longer leys and permanent pasture. Tall Fescue {Festuca elatior L.) resembles the last species but is more tufted in habit and its leaves, stems, and other parts are larger and of coarser texture. It is met with on river banks and in wet places generally, where it frequently grows to a height of 4 or 5 feet. Although it is eaten by all kinds of stock its coarse- ness unfi
. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. 544 COMMON GRASSES OF THE FARM Meadow fescue produces its full yield only after three years growth from the seed and is therefore most suited for the longer leys and permanent pasture. Tall Fescue {Festuca elatior L.) resembles the last species but is more tufted in habit and its leaves, stems, and other parts are larger and of coarser texture. It is met with on river banks and in wet places generally, where it frequently grows to a height of 4 or 5 feet. Although it is eaten by all kinds of stock its coarse- ness unfits it for use in leys and permanent pasture. Possibly meadow fescue is merely a subspecies of this plant. Festuca arundinacea Schreb., which grows near the sea coast in many parts of the country, is a large form of tall fescue with rough leaf-sheaths. Sheep's Fescue {Festuca ovina L.).—A small perennial grass, usually not more than a few inches high and growing in tufts, with narrow, almost solid, bristle-like leaves and smooth leaf-sheaths. It grows well on dry soils, and is one of the chief constituents of upland sheep pastures. Hard Fescue {Festuca duriuscula L.) resembles the last species, but has narrow, flat leaves, dqwny leaf-sheaths, a more open panicle, and does not grow in such dense tufts. It is also of larger growth than sheep's fescue. Both these grasses are constituents of the best sheep pastures on the higher ground of this country, and are almost unaffected by the Fig. 183.—c, Pan- driest Weather. Their produce is small but icle of Sheep's Fes- . , i , , cue (natural size), nutntious and morc succulent than the general blade and piecrof appearance of the leaves indicates. Hard fescue ^Xpiece of leaf may be used with advantage, in moderate amount, showing its cross- c u ..l j * n • . r section and manner as a bottom grass in all mixtures for perma- of fo ding. j^gj^j. pa^styyg jf, ( situations. Red Fescue {Festuca rubra L.) is a perennial grass very nea
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