TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 21 
rough... Stamens double the length of the glumes. 
Siyle feather-like, ftanding out from the fides, 
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AGROSTIS. 
Cal. 2. valved, 1 flowered, rather fmaller than the 
bloffiom. Summits fet lengthways with ftiffifh 
hairs. 
(1) With Awns. 
A. Calyx egg-fhaped ; valves nearly equal; awn 
bent, twice the length of the corolla, fixed juft 
below its middle; ftems proftrate, fomewhat 
branching. 
Moift meadows, paftures, and in the vallies of 
mountain grounds. Marfhy fituations at the foot 
of the Dublin mountains, and Howth, county of 
Dublin. Moift meadows about Collon and Tinure, 
county of Louth. Common in fimilar fituations. 
Were the farmer or grazier acquainted with this 
grafs, and obferved, by their cattle, what nourifh- 
ment it affords to fome fpecies in the vallies of 
their mountaia grounds, and in their low moitft 
meadows, they would not perhaps pais it over fo 
often unnoticed. They are got aware that this 
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CHUN. 
