aquatica. 
44, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
POA, 
Cal. 2-valved, many-flowered: /pikets egg-fhaped : 
valves {kinny at the edge, rather acute. 
P. Panicle upright, fpreading: fpikets ftrape 
fhaped, 6-flowered: leaves fword-fhaped. 
It grows in marfhes, and along the banks of 
rivers. Along the edges of the Grand canal’ from 
James’s-ftreet to Ringfend, and from James’s- 
{treet to Salens, county of Dublin. This is a 
very good grafs, and although very ftrong. look- 
ing, is very tender and foft in its ftems and fo- 
liage, fending forth both in abundance. ‘There 
are many of the {tems which do not flower, but 
are plentifully clad with leaves, which renders 
it a very valuable grafs for pafture. It may 
be imagined from its natural places of growth 
in waters, that it would not bear cultivation 
in other fituations. But this is not the cafe, 
for in different: fituations where it is cultivated in 
the Botanic Gardens it thrives amazingly, not- 
withftanding the foil is naturally a dry one. It 
is a grafs that encreafes very faft by its roots, 
although not creeping, and would be an excellent 
one 
