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‘Fofter, at Collon, where planting is conftantly . 
going on, this grafs might be feen in great per- 
fection. Sheep, goats, cows, horfes and fwine 
eat it P. June. Sept. 
IRISH. ie Selma i 
Cuife garbhghafach. 
Encuisu.—Rough-falked Meadow-grafs. Fold 
grafs. Fowl-grafs. Bird-gra/s. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems decumbent at the 
bafe, then rifing upright, 2 feet or more, cylin- 
drical, roughifh, leafy, often inclining to purple. 
Leaves nearly upright, weak, fomewhat acute, 
keeled, rough underneath and on the edges. 
Sheath almoft the length of the leaves, ftriated, 
fomewhat preffed, rough, with an elongated 
fheath-fcale ending acute. Panicle upright, 
lengthened, terminating, acute, very much 
branched, widely fpreading, and fomewhat rough. 
Calyx, valves equal, rugged on the back: outer 
valve linear-lancefhaped; pointed: inner one 
with three nerves. Corolla, valves fomewhat 
blunt, s-nerved, fkinny at the top, with a 
number of fine woolly hairs at the bafe. 
4 P. Panicle 
