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would encourage and facilitate its under growth, 
and preferve it from fcalding, which otherwife 
would be, or generally is the cafe. The Agrottis 
in this mixture would qualify the more coarfe 
“Phleum: they might be cut about the latter end 
of June; ‘after which the former would fhoot 
afrefh and flower the latter end of Auguft, form- 
ing a fine verdure, an after-grafs, or cover to the 
naked butts of the Phleum pratenfe, which fhoots 
not a frefh that feafon after being cut. Cows, 
horfes, and goats eat it. Swine refufe it. Sheep 
diflike it. P. June. July. 
ee eal lena. 
| Lofchaitfhér léna. 
Encuisu.—Meadow Cat’s-tail-grafs. Common 
Timothy-grafs. Hard-grafs. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems upright, from three 
to four feet, ftriated, leafy, naked at top. Leaves 
fomewhat rough. Sheath long, cylindrical, ftriat- 
ed, with a blunt, fhort, fkinny fheath-fcale. 
Spikes folitary, erect, cylindrical, fometimes from 
four to fix inches long, blunt. Calyx, valves 
ciliated on the-keel. It may be diftinguifhed from 
the Alopecurus pratenfis by its fpikets not lying 
clofely tiled, and by its long rongh cylindrical 
fpike. m 
P. Spike 
