HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSISi 175 



its merits are reduced to this one, the produce of early herbage in 

 the sprino-, which will appear insufficient to recommend it for the 

 purposes of cultivation. 



It flowers in the second week of June, and till August it sends 

 up flowering culms. The seed is ripe in the first week of July, and 

 successively till the middle of September. 



BROMUS multifiorus. Many-flowered Brome-grass. 



Specific character : Panicle nodding at the topj spikelets spear- 

 shaped, compressed, naked ; flowers imbricated ; awn straight; 

 leaves woolly. Host. t. 11. Hort. Gram. Fo. 57. 



Obs. — By attending to the form of the spikelets, this species may 

 readily be distinguished from the Bromus arvensis, whose 

 spikelets are linear spear-shaped. The B. tnolUs may likewise 

 be distinguished from the Bromus aiveiisis by the same cha- 

 racter; and from the Bromus muUijiorus by its downy hairs, 

 which cover the spikelets ; the spikelets of the B. m-vensis and. 

 B. muUijiorus being naked. This is nearer to the Bromus tnul- 

 tijiorus of the E. Bot. than to the Bromus secaliuus; indeed, 

 its alliance to Bromus mollis is so great, that it may with 

 propriety be considered a variety, permanently larger, of that 

 well-known species. 



Native of Britain. Root annual. 



Experiments. — At the time of flowering, the produce from a 



sandy loam is — 



Produce per Acre. 



dr. qr. lbs. 



Grass, 33 oz. The produce per acre - 22460 10 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry - 44 "^ lo'^-'^ r c 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 290 0|- 5 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 10107 4 8 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 5 ^ i- - 1 1 1 i o 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 41 1 5 



On comparing the quantity of nutritive matter aff^orded by the 

 produce of one acre of this grass at the time of flowering, with 

 that afforded under the like circumstances by the Bromus arvensis, 

 it manifests a superiority of 2661bs. per acre. This, and also the 

 superior nutritive qualities of the grass, appear to arise from the 

 greater proportion of culms in the produce of the many-flowered 

 Brome-grass ; for though the culms of the Bromus arvensis grow 

 to a much larger size, they are much less numerous than in the 



