346 HORTUS GUAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. 



Produce per Acre, 

 lbs. 

 The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 4637 4 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 80 gr. ^ ogo jq q 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 260 S 



About the beginning of December, the produce 

 from the same soil is — 

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



dr. qr. 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry - 36 7 4.^94: 3 8 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 108 3 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 5615 2 8 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 2 3^ ^oo i q i r 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 10 1|3 



The weight of nutritive matter in which the crop taken in De- 

 cember exceeds that of the crop when the grass is in flower, in 

 the proportion nearly of 10 to 13, is 701bs. 



This variety of creeping bent is therefore greatly inferior to the 

 larger-leaved variety (Jgrostis stolorrijera latifolia), or fiorin ; for 

 the weight of nutritive matter per acre afforded by the latifolia is 

 two-thirds greater than that of the awned variety. Cattle appear 

 to eat this grass in common with the rough-stalked meadow-grass 

 and meadow foxtail-grass. 



It flowers about a week later than the fiorin, but the seed is 

 ripe about the same time. 



JGROSTIS stolonifera angustifolia. Smaller-leaved Creeping 

 Bent. 



Far. 3. — Panicle densely crowded with florets; florets small ; 

 inner valve of the calyx smooth, outer serrulated ; corolla 

 without any rudiment of an awn. Fig. 1. Floret magnified. 

 2. Corolla. 



Obs. — This is the most common variety of the creeping bent 

 on damp tenacious clayey soils, and in moist woods. It may 

 readily be distinguished from the other varieties by its small, 

 oblong, crowded panicle of a whitish colour. The stolones are 

 closely pressed to the ground, and are almost covered by the 

 leaves, which are more numerous and shorter than in any of 

 the other varieties of this grass. The joints are small, of a 

 slight brown colour. Hort. Gram. Fol. 235. 



Native of Britain. Root perennial. 



