16 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
cultivated alone, it is very apt to lodge, as ap- 
peared to me from the obfervations I had made 
on a fquare plot allotted to it, in the farmers 
divifion, botanic garden. It retained its plot, and 
although placed in a dry fituation, and without 
the help of manure, appears very luxuriant. Not- 
withftanding this, it is faid to grow in moift foils 
only. Tallow it thrives well in a moift foil, and 
I alfo know its produce would be little inferior in 
a dry one. Were a field to be laid down with 
the feed of Alopecurus pratenfis, in mixture with 
thofe of Feftuca pratenfis and Poa trivialis, they in 
conjunction would form a fine meadow. The 
Feftuca pratenfis being a ftouter grafs, but not fo 
lofty as the Alopecurus pratenfis, would contribute 
to fupport the latter, and prevent its being lodged 
by rain or high winds, whilft the Poa trivialis, 
which flourifhes beft when in mixture with others, 
would produce a fufliciency to qualify the other 
two. The Feftuca and Poa flowering the latter 
end of June or beginning of July, the Alopecurus 
would fuftain no material lofs by waiting the time 
_of their cuiting, as its ftems continue green long 
after the {pikes decay. The after-grafs from thefe 
three would alfo be abundant; for, with the 
ample produce of Alopecnrus pratenfis and Feftuca 
pratenfis, 
