TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 77 
linear, fomewhat blunt, rolled inwards, ftiffith, 
and very rough on the back towards the top. 
Sheath ftriated. Sheath-fcale very thort, ciliated 
with fine upright hairs. Panicle upright, fimple, 
about 13 inches long, few-flowered: /pikets egg- 
fhaped, bulged, fmooth, containing from 3 to 5 
flowers, and often inclining to purple. Calyx, 
valves the length of the fpiket, nearly equal, 
egg-fhaped, rough on the keel. Corolla, valves 
awnlefs, hairy at the edge and fometimes at the 
bafe: outer valve trifid at the end. 
F. Panicle loofe, very much branched, fomewhat 
drooping and pointing one way : fpikets fome- 
what awned: the outer ones cylindrical. 
It grows in boggy mountains and fides of wet 
ditches. This is a very tall, ftrong, produétive 
grafs in leaves and ftems, and although coarfe not 
unacceptable to moft cattle. It would anfwer beft 
for meadow, if cultivated feparately, and would 
produce a great crop, which would likewife be 
fucceeded by an abundant aftergrafs, as it has 
very ftrong powers of vegetation. It is not a 
defirable fpecits in mixture. This I have expe- 
rienced in the Botanic gardens, where a plot is 
allotted to it in the farmer’s divifion. It retains 
its 
elatior. 
