64 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
people not acquainted with this circumftance to 
imagine that cattle leave it untouched. Horfes, 
fheep and goats eat it. Cows it is faid are not 
fond of it. i P. June. July. 
foams) a COJTCION. 
Cailechosfhér coitchion. 
Encxiiso.—Common Cock’s-foot-gra/s. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems upright, 3 feet, 
cylindrical, naked above, rough. Leaves linear, 
acute, fpreading, dark green, rough on the edges. 
Sheath ftriated, flatted, rough, with a jagged 
elongated fheath-fcale. Panicle, branches alter- 
nate; little branches diftant, very rough, ftiff, 
decompound. Spikets in little tufts, pointing one 
way, rough. Calyx, valves very unequal, keeled, 
pointed; outer one 3-nerved, ciliated on the 
keels; inner one fkinny-like. oréts 3 or 4, 
feldom fingle, larger than the calyx, ciliated 
tooth-like on the keel ; inner valve bifid, ciliated. 
Anthers purple, ftanding out, trembling. 
CYNOSURUS. 
