AN ESSAY 
INDIGENOUS GRASSES 
{RELAND, 
Ke. Ke. 
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DIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
ANTHOXANTHUM. 
Cal. Hutk of 2 valves, and 1 flower; Cor. Hufk 
_ 2 valves tapering toa point, Seed 1. 
A. Spike oblong-eggfhaped: florets longer than 
the awns, on fomewhat of foot-ftalks. 
Common in meadows and pattures. It alfo 
abounds in young plantations, and peat bogs, flou- 
rifhing in a particular manner in the latter. As 
a meadow grafs, it is infignificant from its naked 
‘ftem and fhort foliage; as a pafture, it may be 
ufeful from its early fpring, before others are far 
in vegetation, but when feparate it has a tolerable 
produce, particularly in moift or fhady places, as 
young plantations, &c. I have feen it in great 
perfection through a planting at Margarets, on 
the 
