62 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Very common in meadows and fhady places. 
This is a very produétive grafs both in leaves and 
ftems ; it will thrive almoft in any foil or fitua- 
tion; and, as I have experienced in the Botanic 
gardens, in the farmer’s divifion, where a plot is 
allotted to this grafs, it retains its ground with- 
out appearing any way to decline, and produces 
a heavy fleece; it alfo produces aftergrafs in 
abundance. It is a coarfe grafs, and from the 
quantity of feed it bears muft be very nutritious. 
It has the ftrongeft powers of vegetation of any 
grafs I know; and may be eafily pointed out a 
little time after cutting in any meadow, being 
the firft vifible after raking. Other graffes do 
not feem to thrive well alongfide of it, being 
overfhaded and fcalded by its numerous and long 
foliage, and the ground is generally found bare 
for an inch or more round its bafe. If cultivated 
feparately, it would produce an abundant crop; 
and, although a coarfe grafs, a method might be 
taken to meliorate and make it more palatable to 
cattle, (i. €.) by having it judicioufly intermixed 
in the rick at the time of drawing home to the 
farm-yard. It is a grafs that would anfwer well 
_.,in young fhady plantations, as it is not injured by 
fhade; and in fach fitwations, where other grafles 
would 
