230 ilOllTUS OIIAMINELS WOIUl UIM^N S 1 5. 



serrulated ; corolla without any rudiment of an 

 awn. 



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. 



Native of Britain. Root perennial. 



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

 from a bog soil is 16,335 lbs. per acre. 



The agrusiis stoloiijfera /atifoUa, mown in December, 

 afforded of nutritive matter 1,435 lbs. 



The agrostis stolonifera angnstij'olia, mown at the same 

 time, afforded only 930 lbs. 

 Which shows that the value of the variety lutijolia exceeds, 

 in December, that of the angiistij'ulia in the proportion nearly 

 of 11 to 7. 



From the above details it is evident this common variety 

 stands next in value to the larger-leaved variety of creeping 

 bent. It appeared from ail the observations I could make 

 on this grass when growing in natural pastures, to be 

 entirely neglected by cattle while any of the superior pasture 

 grasses presented a sufficiency for a bite. Though the tem- 

 porary acceptance or rejection of a particular sort of food by 

 cattle will be found a fallacious criterion of its merit or 

 comparative value, nevertheless, in instances like the present, 

 where the plant possesses no superior quality otherwise, to 

 recommend it, the dislike of cattle to partake of it adds 

 greatly to the demerits of the plant. 



Flowers in the second and third weeks of July, and ripens 

 the seed about the end of August. 



AGROSTIS pal ustris. Marsh Bent. 



Specijic character : Panicle loose when in flower^, spike-like 



