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TRIANDRIA (DIGYNTIA. 73 
valves linear.lancefhaped, acute, unequal, fmooth, 
containing 5 or 6 flowers. » Corolla, inner valve 
fomewhat fhorter, bluntifh, pubefcent on the 
edge. een i ee 
ane | 
F. Panicle oblong; pointing one way: fpikets 
oblong, 6-flowered, cures ‘leaves. briftle- 
fhaped. rrtee | Yiodl 
‘Common in dry meadows and pattures, This 
is a good grafs in pattures, producing foliage in 
abundance, and continuing in verdure during the 
winter; but as a meadow grafs not very defirable, 
unlefs in fmall quantity, for it is not prolific in 
flowering ftems, and the leaves alfo become ‘fo 
matted at the bafe, that it would be an annoy- 
ance to others more beneficial. It would be a 
defirable fpecies in fheep-walks, as its foliage, 
which is fine, fprings early, and vegetates quickly 
after cutting; and it is a, grafs that might be 
worthy of cultivation, as fheep relith jit much. 
It encreafes faft by fuckers, will grow in any foil, 
and with{tands the drought of fummer. Cattle 
eat it. |  P. June. July. 
L IrisH. 
duriuscula. 
