known by the common name squirreltail. This grass is native to most of North America west of the Mississippi River
. It occurs in a number of ecosystems, from alpine forest
to desert sage scrub
to valley grassland
.
Elymus elymoides is a perennial bunch grass growing to around half a meter in height. Its erect solid stems have flat or rolled leaf blades. The inflorescence
is up to 15 centimeters long and somewhat stiff and erect, with spikelets
one or two centimeters long not counting the awn, which may be 9 centimeters long and sticks straight out, making the inflorescence look like a bottlebrush.
This grass is considered a very good forage for sheep.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philsophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy, in the minds of men.
ATHEISM: A godless religion that retains all the dogmatic posturing of the faiths it so confidently denies, with few of the consolations.