REPORT ON GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 1%5 
high, without running root-stecks. The leaves are narrowly linear, 5 to 
6 inches long and about 2 to3 lines wide. The panicle is from 5 to’ 
10 inches long, composed of 5 to 7 whoris of branches, mosily in fives, 
rough, varying in length from 2 to 6 inches; the flowers toward the 
ends of the branches; spikelets 1 to 2 lines long, 2 to 4 flewers, acute, 
short pedicelled, green, sometimes tinged with purple. The flowers and 
glumes are narrow, the lower palet very obscurely nerved, and more or 
less webby at the base. 
Uses.—This species is most common in the Northern States, particu- 
larly north of Pennsylvania. It is a good grass for moist meadows. In 
Wisconsin, where many natural meadows of this grass occur, it is highly 
esteemed. (See Plate 16.) 
Prozimate analysis of Poa serotina, from Wiseonsin (Fowl Meadow grass). 
Per cent, 
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100, 00 
Analysis of ash of Poa serotina (Fowl Meadow grass). 
. Per cent. 
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100. 00 
POA PRATENSIS—Kentucky Blue grass. 
Description.—This grass is too well known-to need an extended deserip- 
tion. Professor Killebrew, of Tennessee, says: 
It would seem a work of supererogation to argue as to the advantages of cultivating 
this grass. All know its benefits, and all see around them the great increase in the 
value of the land covered by it. It grows readily in all parts of the United States 
north of latitude 40°, and lower down on suitable soils. It flowers in the earliest 
summer, and gives rich pasturage, except in the driest months, all the year. It varies 
in size in difierent localities according to soil and climate. 
Uses.—F rom the unexampled success its cultivation has met with in 
Kentucky it has acquired the name of Kentucky Blue grass, though in 
the New England States it is known by the name of June grass. In all 
the middle portions of the United States it forms the principal constitu- 
ent of the turf, though its excellence is rather depreciated in the Eastern 
States. ‘In some sections it has been used as a hay, but it is not a 
success aS a meadow grass, its chief excellence being exhibited as a 
pasture grass. It endures the frosts of winter better than any other 
grass we have, and if allowed to grow rank during the fall months, it 
will turn over and hide beneath its covering the most luxuriant of winter 
croppings. Many persons pass their stock through the entire winter on 
it alone, feeding only when the ground is covered with snow.” (See 
Plate 17.) 
