TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 29 
I aie ban. 
RISH. 
Taenfher bén. 
Ene.isu.—White Bent-gra/s. 
Ob. Roots perennial. ‘Stems trailing at the 
bafe: under ones putting forth fibres from the 
joints, leafy, fmooth. Leaves rough. Sheath 
even, with a blunt bifid theath-fcale fometimes 
appearing’ rent-like. Panicle compact, bearing 
flowers clofely from the bafe to the top, Calyx, 
valves equal, acute, green, rough on the keel. 
Corolla thorter than the calyx; valves unequal, 
acute. Anthers, violet colour. 
A. Panicle fpreading: branches ftradling, hair- 
like, bare at the bafe: calyx valves equal: 
corolla, inner valve blunt, half the fize of the 
outer. 
Common in dry fandy foils, and on the fides of 
hills. About Finglas quarries, Feltrum hill, 
Knockmarron hill, and Howth, county of Dublin. 
This grafs is fine in its leaves, {tems, and panicle; 
it is more defirable as a pafture grafs than as a 
meadow. Its fmall fize, and very flender ftems, 
give us an unfavourable opinion of its worth as a 
meadow grafs, It grows abundantly in fandy 
ficlds along the fea fhore, and even there has 
nothing 
vulgaris. 
