a2 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
fpecies is a great mean of fupplying them with 
good mutton, milk, &c.; and although a fmall 
grafs, it is more beneficial to them than many mor€ 
lofty which furround it. It is a low growing 
grafs, producing much foliage, which is very fine, 
and has one good peculiarity, that of growing in 
the dead feafon, when others more noticed lie 
dormant. As a meadow grafs, no way defirable : 
as 4 pafture grafs, very acceptable in moift low 
meadows or boggy grounds. Cows and horfes 
eat it. P.. July. 
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§Caenpen DON. 
¢ Taenfhér donn. 
EncuisH.—Brown Bent-gra/s. 
TrIsH. 
Ob. Stems decumbent, from one to two feet, 
fomewhat branched, fmooth, leafy. Leaves rough 
on each fide. - Panicle elongated, often from four 
to five inches upright: little branches clofe, in- 
clining to a purple. Calyx, valves nearly equal, 
coloured, nearly double the length of the cor®lla. 
Awn briftle-like, white, upright, marked with a 
brown knot towards the middle, double the length 
of the corolla, and fixed juft beneath its middle. 
(2) Without 
