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abundance. It is far preferable to the former, as 
it continues in verdure longer, and is earlier in its 
fpring. It would do well for pafture, but is not 
adapted for meadow. P. July. 
¢FCacwphéen abhac. 
IRIsH. 
ee, ¢ Taenfhér abbac. 
EncLisH.— Dwarf Bent-gra/fs. 
Ob. Roots many. Stems in many bundles, 
fmooth, about two {mall finger lengths, and fur- 
nifhed with leaves refembling thofe of the roots. 
Sheath ftriated, fomewhat rolled inwards. Panicle 
very much fpreading and fomewhat pointing one 
way. Florets coloured, awnlefs, ending in a {mall 
point. 
A. Panicle threadfhaped, awnlefs; bloffom 
hairy. 
It grows in dry barren places. I have found 
this grafs in the month of September, without a 
grain of feed in the panicle, on a dry bank, about 
two miles fouth of Tuam, county Galway—and 
in June faplefs, and full of feed, along the fouth 
fide of Mount Oriel; and on the lands of Mulla- 
ruagh, near Collon, county Louth. It has alfo 
been found, flewering in Auguft, near the fummit 
of 
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