TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Poa. I4 3 



Barr. 703. 1. C-C. B. th. 32. 2-Park. 1158. 1-G^r. em. 

 3. 1 .-iV/. ii. gram, itah 4. <?. 1 l.~y. B. ii. AG-i~Scheucb. 



4. 13. A. B. C. 



Mr. M 



P. Panicles spreading horizontally: branches in pairs : spi- an'nua, 



kets mostly 4 -flowered : leaves flat: sheaths smooth. 



Gram. pasc. -Curt. 1. 1— Stilling f. 7 -H. ox.yYii. 5. Zl—Mus 9 

 rust. iv. 2. 8-Dod. 56©. l-Lob. obs. <). \-Ger. em. 2. 1- 

 Park. 1156- 4, the upper left hand-C. B. th. 3\~J. B. 

 ii. 46*5. \-Ger. em. 3. 2-Park, 11 06. 4, lower left hand— 

 J. B. ib. 2. ^-Panicle, tfff. Z^rx 6. \- Anders, called 

 C. compressa-B ranch of the panicle^ Scbeuch. 3. 17* E.- 

 Park. 1 1 f>6. lower right hand. 



Panicle branches in the middle often in threes, at the top soli- 

 tary. Curt. Spikets larger than those of the P. pratensis. Mr. 

 Dickenson. Growing almost every where on walls and gravel 

 walks, as well as in the richer soil of pastures, it varies extremely 

 in size, from 2 to 12 inches or more. Straw compressed, smooth. 

 Leaves tender, smooth except towards the end. Panicle thinly 

 set, nearly 2 inches long, and almost as broad. Spikets from 3 to 

 5 flowered. Florets woolly at the base and on the lower part of 

 the keel. Its smoothness distinguishes it from the t tibialis, its 

 compressed straw and thinly set panicle from the pratensis. 



Suffolk-grass. Annual Meadow-grass. Pastures, paths, gravel 

 walks, and the borders of fields. All sorts of cattle eat it. 



A. April — Sept. 



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P. Panicle spreading: spikets 3 -flowered, woolly at the trivia'lis. 



base: straw upright, rough: sheath-scale tapering 

 to a point. Curt. 



Gram. p as c. -Curt. -Park. 11.56*. 4. upper right hand fig. - 



C. B. th. 30. 



Root creeping. The whole plant rough. One and \ or 2 

 feet high, or more. Panicle 6 or 8 inches high and 3 or 4 broad, 

 when fully expanded. Florets mostly 3 or 4 in each spiket, 

 generally 3- Has some resemblance to the P. pratensis, but its 

 creeping root, and the great roughness of the straw and leaves, 

 sufficiently distinguish them, though the uncertainty of the num- 

 ber of florets in each spiket should otherwise occasion a doubt. 



Bird-grass, by which name it is known to the seedsmen. 



Fowl-grass, Fold Meadow g vast. Rough-stalked Meadow-grass. 



Moist meadows and sides of ditches. P. June, July. 



§ Var. 2. reptans. Stems trailing, taking root at the joints : 

 Spikets with 2 or 3 florets < — Qrchat9n Long Grass. Structure 





