annua. 
52 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA- 
rate, UNE mingagac. 
Cuife minghafach. 
Encuisu.—Smooth-falked Meadow-gra/s. 
Ob. Roots creeping, fending up fuckers. Stems 
upright, from 1 to 2 feet, cylindrical, ftriated, 
{mooth, leafy. Leaves fpreading, bluntifh, keeled, 
{mooth, fometimes glaucous. Sheath the length 
of the leaves, ftriated, fmooth, with a fhort blunt 
theath-feale. Panicle fpreading, upright, ending 
rather blunt. Ca/yx, valves acute, fomewhat un- 
equal, three-nerved, with a rugged prominence 
on the back. Corolla, valves fomewhat blunt, 
acutely five-nerved, fkinny at top, hunched and 
rough on the back, with a number of very long 
villous hairs at the bafe. 
P. Panicle triangular, fpreading horizontally: 
{pikets moftly 4-flowered, blunt: florets point- 
ing one way: ftems flanting, flatted. 
Very common in paftures, road fides, paths, 
gravel walks, and borders of fields; Although 
a {mall grafs, it is not unprofitable to the farmer; 
for on many parts of his grounds liable to wafte, 
this dwarf fpecies furnifhes a delicious, and fome- 
times a welcome bit, to many fpecies of his cattle, 
nay of his fowl; and it poffefles thefe excellent 
properties, of growing, flowering and feeding 
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