TRLANDRIA DIGYNIA. os 
(2) Without Awns. 
A. Panicle, little branches fpreading, awnlefs ; 
ftems creeping: calyx, valves equal, lance- 
fhaped, pubefcent. ‘ 
It is a very common grafs in moift meadows, 
paftures, and on cold {tiff arable lands. ‘This 
grafs increafes very faft by rooting at each joint, 
getting to a confiderable length, and furnifhing 
amazingly at bottom before it rifes for flower. 
Then it fends forth flowering ftems in abundance, 
which, from their debility, and the want of other 
grafles as a fupport, prefs down on the under 
foliage which had become fo prolific whilft enjoy- 
ing the air. Thus, in a little time, this under 
foliage is excluded from air and fun, and, from 
having been in fach perfection and high verdure, 
fhortly after it becomes yellow, and is fcalded by 
the multiplicity and preflure of the flowering 
ftems, there remaining no verdure but that part 
which appears on the furface. I have remarked, 
when treating on the Phleum pratenfe, that were 
this grafs cultivated with it, as the fame foil and 
fituation agree with both, an advantage might 
refult therefrom. For the Phleum pratenfe being 
a {trong 
stolonifera. 
