62 WOOLY SOFT GEASS. 



powers beyond a rather limited period, and the diffi- 

 culty with which they are procured, its cultivation is 

 attended with considerable disadvantage, for such 

 as suit it best will not afford paying a high price for 

 the seed, and its foilage is not produced in great 

 quantities, owing to its shortness. 



There is a variety occasionally to be met with irL 

 moors differing from the common in being of a much 

 more light and yellowish green color, but in other 

 respects the same. There is a hardy annual, the 

 Large Quaking grass (Briza Maxima) cultivated in 

 gardens for ornament, w^hich grows about one foot 

 high, very elegant ; also the Briza Graciles (slender 

 Quaking grass), grown for ornament. Briza Media, 

 is found growing naturally in pastures in the middle- 

 and Eastern States. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



WOOLLY So:?T GRASS ; OR, YORKSHIRE WHITE. MEA- 

 DOW SOFT GRASS. VELVET GRASS. 



Holcus Lanatus — Specific Character. 



Perrennial, soft, downy and pale ; panicle oblong; 

 upper glume mucronate, awned under the apex ^ 

 awn of the staminate flower curved. Flowers in- 

 July, and ripens seeds in July. 



Way's Analysis. 



100 parts as taken green from the field June 29tli 



Water eQ.TO 



Albuminous, or flesh forming principles . . 3.49 



Fatty matters 1 02: 



Heat producing principles, starch, sugar, gum, etc 11.92: 



Woody Fibre 11.9^ 



