HORTUS GUAMINEUS VVOB U UN KN S I S. 113 



Experiments At the time of flowering, the produce from 



a sandy loam with manure is 14,293 lbs. per acre. 



The produce of latter-math is 6,125 lbs. per acre. 



The proportional value, in which the grass at the time of 

 flowering exceeds that of the latter- math, is as 4 to 1 ; and 

 the grass, at the time the seed is ripe, exceeds that of the 

 latter-math in the proportion of 5 to 2. 



From the above details, which show the produce of this 

 grass, it appears to be inferior to the festuca duriuscula, 

 which will be manifest on a comparison of the former de- 

 tails respecting the festuca duriuscnla with the above. In 

 regard to early produce, however, this grass is superior. 

 The herbage is uncommonly fine and succulent. But these 

 merits appear hardly sufficient to compensate for the defi- 

 ciency of produce. If its merits be compared with those of 

 some of the early grasses, the anthoxafithimt odoj'atiim for 

 instance, it will be found superior. 



Though this grass cannot be recommended in preference 

 to i\iQ festuca duriuscula, yet it is evident, from the above 

 details, that among the fine-leaved fescues, it is the best 

 substitute for that species where it is wanting. It is not so 

 common as the festuca duriuscula, being more confined to 

 the moist spots of the pastures, though occasionally found 

 also on the drier places, in company with it. Flowers in 

 the second week of June, and ripens the seed in the second 

 week of July. 



POA nemoralis, var. angustifolia. Wood Meadow-grass. 



Specific character: Panicle capillary, flowering a little on 

 one side, diffuse ; spikelets lanceolate, mostly three- 

 flowered ; florets hairy at the base, without a web. 



Obs. — The sheath-scale is very short, and truncated; straw 

 rather compressed than otherwise, vagina smooth, root 

 stoloniferous. Hardly any grass varies more than the 

 poa nemoralis var. in the number of florets contained in 

 the calyx. When the poa nemoralis var. angustijolia is 

 raised from seed, in open situations, the first year, the 

 calyx contains only from three to five florets ; after- 

 wards^ the number increases to nine florets in each ca- 



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