142 AGROSTIS. 



2. A. Perennanb (Thin Grass. Damp, shaded 

 places. 



3. A. ScABRA (Hair Grass or Fly- A way Grass, 

 Tickle Grass, Common in old fields and marshy 

 places ; no value. 



4. A. Canina (Brown or Dogs' Bent Grass). 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Culms eight inches to two feet high ; roots, leaves, 

 involute bristle form, those of the culm flat and 

 broader ; panicle loose ; ; glumes slightly unequal, 

 ovate-lanceolate, very acute ; palet exsertly awned 

 on the back, at or below the middle ; spikelets 

 brownish or purplish, rarely pale or greenish (one- 

 twelfth to nearly one-sixth inch long). 



E-emarks. — Perennial : flowers in June and July, 

 -grows naturally in poor, wet, peaty soils, and is only 

 valuable for cultivating on such. Cattle seem to 

 prefer this to most others of the genus. 



5. A. Vulgaris (Fine Bent Grass, Red Top). See 

 page 64. 



6. A. Alba (White Bent Grass). 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Panicle spreading, meagre, branches roughish ; 

 culms decumbent ; root creeping. 



This grass is late, unproductive, and contains but 

 little nutritive matter. Its creeping roots greatly 

 exhaust the soil. In this variety they are smaller 

 than in the other varieties, but equally difficult to 



