HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. 189 



Native of Germany. Root perennial. 



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

 a sandy loam is 6,806 lbs. per acre. 



This is an alpine species of grass, and attains to a greater 

 size than most others of the same class ; but it is a native of 

 the Alps of the fertile duchy of Carinthia, in Germany. 

 It is rather late in the produce of foliage in the spring, 

 and does not afford much after-grass. Its nutritive powers, 

 as indicated by the quantity of nutritive matter it contains, 

 are not superior to several other grasses that afford a greater 

 abundance of herbage throughout the season. It produces 

 flowers about the first and second weeks of July, and seeds 

 in the second week of August. 



STIPA pennata. Long-awned Feather-grass. 



Generic character : Calyx 2- valved, T-flowered ; corolla 

 outer valve ending in an awn ; awn joined at the base. 



Specific character: Awns woolly. 



Obs. — Awns from six to twelve inches long or more, 

 set with very fine, soft, white, pellucid hairs. In Ray's 

 Synopsis, p. 393, this elegant grass is said to have 

 been found by Dr. Richardson and Thomas Lawson, 

 on the limestone rocks hanging over a little valley 

 called Longsdale, about six miles north of Kendal, in 

 Westmoreland. Hudson gives no other place of growth ; 

 but in the second edition of Withering's Botanical 

 Arrangement of British plants, Mr. Alderson is said to 

 have found it near Kendal. Mr. Gough, who lives 

 near Kendal, informs Dr. Withering, that he never 

 could find nor hear of its being found by any person 

 except the two first-mentioned gentlemen ; there is 

 therefore reason to fear that it may be exterminated. 



Experiments. — At the time of flowering, the pi'oduce 

 from a heath soil is 9,528 lbs. per acre. 



Though, so far as the above experiments prove, it cannot 

 be propagated by the seed on a large scale, yet by parting 

 the roots it may soon be propagated to any extent ; but its 

 agricultural merits appear to be so inconsiderable as to rank it 

 with the inferior grasses. The beautiful feather-like awns 



