Crossword-Solution: FESTUCA 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Approaching the pillar from the south, the traveller must pass over a series of red sandhills, covered with some scrubs, and clothed near the ground with that abominable vegetable production, the so-called spinifex or porcupine grass--botanically, the Triodia, or Festuca irritans.

This we did, passing through somewhat thick scrubs for eighteen miles, when we came full upon the creek again, and here for the first time since we started we noticed some bunches of spinifex, the Festuca irritans, and some native poplar trees.

Bonpland and myself on the cold table-lands of Mexico, along the burning shores of the Orinoco, and in the southern hemisphere on the Andes and Quito.* (* Cyperus mucronatus, Poa eragrostis, Festuca myurus, Andropogos avenaceus, Lapago racemosa.

The path again crosses the river (which is split into many channels), and proceeds northwards, over gravelly terraces and rocks with patches of Scotch alpine grasses (_Festuca ovina_ and _Poa laxa_), sedges, _Stipa,_ dandelion, _Allardia,_ gentians, _Saussurea,_ and _Astraga1us,_ varied with hard hemispherical mounds of the alsineous plant mentioned at chapter xxi.

The wind swung the bennet and loosened his hold, and away he went again over the grasses, and not one jot did he care if they were _Poa_ or _Festuca_, or _Bromus_ or _Hordeum_, or any other name.