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CHAPTER Xyil. 



SWEET SCENTED VERNAL. 



AntJioxantlium Ocloratum — 'Specific Character. 



Spikelets (brownish or tingled with gre an), spread- 

 ing at flowering time ; one of the neutral flowers, 

 bearing a bent awn from near its base, the other 

 short awned belcw the tip. Perrennial. Flowers in _ 

 May and ripens in June. 



Way's Analysis 



100 parts as taken graen from the field May 26th. 



Water.....: 80.35 



Albuminous or flesh forming principles 2.05 



Fatty matters - .07 



Heat producing principles, starch, sugar, gum, etc 8.54 



Woody fibre 7.15 



Mineral mattar or Ash 1.24 



100.00 

 100 parts of the grass dried at 212^' Fahr. 



Albuminous or flesh forming x^rinciples. 10.43 



Fatty m at ters. .- 3.41 



Heat producing principles, starch, sugar, gum, etc 43.48 



Woody fibre.. 3G.3o 



Mineral matter or Ash. 0.32 



100.00 



This is one of the earliest of the English grasses, 

 and grows on almost any kind of soil. Althoi^gh 

 neither very productive nor nutritive, and far from 

 being a favorite to cattle when given them alone. It 

 yet possesses the peculiar value of being the onLy 

 fragrant plant natural to English fields, and imparts 

 the delightful perfume so perceptible in new hay. 

 It indeed forms a part of the herbage on all good 



