56 -TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
forth a tolerable quantity of foliage, yet its leaves 
are but fhort, as likewife its ftems. I don’t con- 
fider it as a grafs much worthy the notice of the 
farmer, neither is it one to be recommended for 
meadows or paftures, as it rather inclines to grow 
upon old walls and fuch dry fituations, and even 
there it has but an unfightly appearance. Sheep, 
goats, cows, and horfes eat it. P. June. July. 
Pe) ae Law semufl. 
Cuife faifgembuil. 
EncxisH.—Comprefed Meadow-gra/s. 
Ob. Roots creeping. Stems trailing, then 
afcending, from 8 to 12 inches, knotted, {mooth, 
leafy, very much flatted. Leaves flat, acute, 
fmooth, inclining to a fea-green colour. Sheaths 
the length of the leaves, two-edged, ftreaked, 
with fhort blunt fheath-fcales. Panicle clofe, 
nearly inclining one way, bluntith ; little branches 
angular, rough, fomewhat weaved, f{preading 
before flower, afterwards becoming clofe. Calyx, 
valves nearly equal, eg2-fhaped, nerved, contain- 
ing from 4 to g florets. Corolla, valves egg- 
fhaped, three-nerved, fkinny at top, and -of a 
purplifh colour towards the bafe. 
P. Panicle 
