TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA,. 65 
CYNOSU RUM wer 
Cal. 2-valved, many- flowered, it i one fide on 
“a. peculiar leafy ‘receptacle. 
C. Floral leaves with winged clefts: fpike fimple, 
femicylindrical, tapering. 
, Common in dry paftures. The leaves of this 
grafs are very fhort, the ftems hard and tough, 
and not very high; and as a meadow grafs of no 
utility. As the leaves are pretty fine, abundant, 
and clofe, it would anfwer near the fummits and 
on fides of hilly grounds, as a pafture for fheep ; 
for in fuch places it is moft frequently met with, 
and particularly on thofe parts which are ftocked 
by that fpecies of cattle. The ftems being hard 
and wiry, {mall cattle do not like it; and on this . 
account it is frequently con{picuous in. paftures, 
being left Pit A whilft its leaves, and alfo the 
{tems and leaves of other herbage around it, are 
eaten clofely down. By thefe means its feed 
is preferved, and falls at a proper feafon. This I 
look upon to be the caufe of the predominance 
of this grafs in fheep-walks and paftures. Sheep 
eat the leaves, but ’not the ftems. 
A. ‘July. Auguft. 
K IRISH. 
cristatus. 
