Citations:festucine


 * 1953, Richard Llewellyn, A flame for doubting Thomas, page 202:
 * He watched the white-gold head in a nod, remembering her lucent beauty, and a cold smoothness almost of stone, and the heavy ball that rolled, pulled by a festucine burden dripping weed and brine.


 * 1789–1813, George Shaw, Frederick Nodder (publishers), Naturalist's Miscellany, volume 11:
 * THE FESTUCINE VIBRIO
 * GENERIC CHARACTER.
 * Animalcule inconſpicuous to the naked eye, ſimple, cylindric, elongated.
 * SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c.
 * Yellowiſh VIBRIO, conſiſting of gregarious filaments variouſly diſpoſed.
 * Straw-ſhaped VIBRIO.
 * Pipe VIBRIO.
 * Pipe VIBRIO.

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 * 1956, Jack Rodney Harlan, Theory and dynamics of grassland agriculture:
 * It is, however a Festucine, since it can hybridize with Festuca. Nardus has also been grouped with the Hordeae for the same reason, but the mere possession of sessile spikelets is meager evidence of affinity.