136 HORTUS GIIAMINEUS WOBURNEMSIS. 



it is certainly more jDOvverful when combined with the grasses 

 which compose hay. About the middle of April it comes into 

 flower, and the seed is ripe generally about the first or second week 

 of June. 



DACTYLIS glomerata. Round panicled Cock 's-foot Grass. 

 Specific character: Panicle distantly branched; flowers in 

 dense globular tufts, unilateral; corolla somewhat awned, 

 five-ribbed, taper-pointed. Sm. E. Fl. v. i. p. 134. 

 Native of Britain. E. Bot. 335 ; Host. t. 94 ; Mart. F. R. t. 14 ; 

 F. D. 743 ; Moris, s. 8,t. 6, f. 38. Hort. Gram. Fo. 8. Fig. 1. 

 Spikelet magnified. 2. Floret mag. 3. Nectary or inner valves. 

 . Experiments. — The produce of herbage, from a space of four 

 square feet of a rich sandy loam, on the 15th of April, is — 



Pioduce per Acre, 

 dr. qr. lbs. 



Grass, 15 oz. The prodifce per acre - - 10209 6 



64 dr. of grass aflbrd of nutritive matter 2 1^ 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 8 1| 5 



At the time of flowering, the produce is. 

 Grass, 41 oz. The produce per acre - - 27905 10 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry - 34 

 The produce of the space, ditto 278|- 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 16045 1112 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 2 2^ 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 25 2g 5 



At the time the seed is ripe, the produce is. 

 Grass, 39 oz. The produce per acre - 26544 6 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry - 40 ^ 1Q979 q 



The produce of the space, ditto - 312 3 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 13272 3 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 3 2^ 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 34 Og i 



The weiG:ht of nutritive matter, in which the seed } 



crop exceeds that of the flowering crop, is, i 

 The proportional value which the grass, at the time the seed is 



ripe, bears to that at the time of flowering, is as 7 to 5. The 



produce of latter-math, is, 

 Grass, 17 oz. 8 dr. The produce per acre - 11910 15 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter, 1 dr. ^ osi in Q 

 . 2 qr. The produce per acre - - 5 ~^ 



1189 14 4 



11859 14 4 



