96 TRAANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
In the interior parts of the country, hay is fe-. 
lected where the greateft quantity of the Agroftis 
ftolonifera is, that it may be preferved for making 
hay water as drink for cows, to increafe their 
milk. It is alfo given to young calves in mixture 
with new milk, and confidered very nourifhing. 
There is a variety of this grafs with filver-ftriped 
leaves, which I have met with growing. 
P. July. Aug. and part of Sept. 
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Ip SCe een Fopin. 
") Taenfhér Forin. 
Foraon. Fiorin. Forin. 
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Eneisu.—Creeping Bent-grafs. Black Squitch- 
gras. aw 
Ob. Roots perennial, fibrous, branching much. 
Stems decumbent, branching, leafy, putting forth 
roots from its numerous joints as they advance, 
then getting upright. Leaves from 1 to 3 inches 
long, veined, rough on each fide, broad in pro- 
portion to the length.. Sheath-/cale many cleft. 
Panicle from 3 to 5 inches long, upright, com- 
pact: Branches from half an inch to an inch long, 
crowded with florets down to the union with the 
main ftem. Calyx, valves equal, bluntifh, keeled, 
inclining to purple, pubefcent outfide: ‘Corolla 
fhorter 
