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almoft throughout the year, and is browfed on 
by his cattle and fowl at a feafon when more 
lofty graffes lie in a ftate of inaction, It is a fweet 
and fine grafs, and by no means unacceptable in 
pattures. As a meadow-grafs, of no value. 
Sheep, goats, cows, horfes and fwine eat it. 
A. Flowering all fummer. 
teas ee blyoaynce. 
Cuife blidbainta. 
Encuisu.— Annual Meadow-grafs. Suffolk-grafs. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems many, from 4 to 
12 inches, flatted, leafy, fmooth. Leaves {pread- 
ing, flat, linear, pointed, rough on the edges, 
very often with tranfverfe wrinkles on fome part 
of them. Sheath elongated, flatted, fmooth, 
ftreaked, pale, with a fhort gnawed-like fheath- 
feale. Panicle triangular, upright, inclining one 
fide, thinly branched. Ca/yx, valves lance-fhaped, 
acute, keeled, unequal. Corolla, valves oval- 
lancefhaped, blunt, five-nerved, hunched, with 
a fkinny-like fubftance on the edges, and without 
apy woolly hairs or down at their bafe as in the 
Poa trivialis. 
P. Panicle clofe, nearly pointing one way: fpikets 
many-flowered, nearly columnar: florets diftant: 
ftems afcending. 
It 
maritima. 
