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TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Agrostis. 



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veiled, 

 long. 



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Panicle 4-J to 51 inches, branches 1 to If, very slender, 

 straight, expanding, of a blackish brown colour. 

 thinly scattered at the ends of the branches. ~ 



Florets few, 



Calyx outer valve 

 serrulated, inner smooth, rather shorter. Bloss. inner valve 

 barely half the length and breadth of the outer. 



Gramen canlnum suplnum minus. Scbeuch. 1528. Gramen mon~ 

 tanum mlllaceum minus, radlce repente. Ray Syn. 402. given upon 



a supposition that there is no mistake in his reference to Scheuch. 

 This plant has sometimes been considered as the Agr. stolonlfera 

 of Linn, but it is very different from that, and seems to have 

 been figured by no one but Leers, who also is inclined to refer it 





quitch. 



!fera y r 

 \tolontfe 



Both this and 



[In marley, clayey, and other cold wet soil, whether in grass 



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A. Panicle compact, branches stiff, short, densely crowd- stoloniPm, 



ed with florets at the base : calyx inner valve smooth, 

 outer only serrulated upwards. 



Lob. k. 21. l*-Park. 1174. 4-G*r. em. 26. l-Tabern. 5l6. 



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Panicle branches straddling, awnless. Stra w creeping. Calyxes 



equal. Linn. Straws creeping, smooth, purplish, striking out 

 fibrous roots from numerous joints. 



Leaves very rough, 1 to 3 



with the main stem. Calyx, outer valve only serrulated on the 

 upper half; inner valve smooth. Bless, inner valve f the length 

 and \ the breadth of the outer. 



Gramen radlce repente, panlcula densa splcata, spadiceo <viridi) 

 loeustis exlguts mutlcls. Scheuch. loO. Ag. stolonlfera. Linn. 



Black Squltch. Moist meadows and pastures: also in cold stiff 

 arable lands. [In a close called the Far Wet Croft, at Blymhill, 

 Staffordshire. Mr. Dickenson.] P. July— Sept.* 



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* In clayey arable lands this* is a troublesome couch or squitch, for 

 when such lands are broken up and tallowed, the roots are with difficulty- 

 separated by the harrows from the adhesive soil. Our farmer* call it 

 black squitch. Mr. Dickenson. At Orchesion, about 19 miles from 

 Salisbury, there is a small tract of meadow land, which is sometimes wa- 

 rred in the winter by means of a spring flowing out of a limestone rock. 

 ** is mown twice in the summer, and after a favourable season for water- 

 yj£> the first crop is near 5 tons per acre ; the second about half as much. 

 This extraordinary produce very properly excited the attention of th« 



A Sricultural Society established at Bath, and from the reports made to 



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