fiuitans. 
82 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
acute, finooth, one of them broader, three- 
nerved. Corolla, inner valve hollow, jagged at 
top and pubefcent on the edges. 
F. Panicle upright, branched; fpikets nearly 
fitting, cylindrical, preffed to the fpike-ftalks, 
awnlefs. 
Common in wet muddy ditches and ponds. 
In vacant fpots in marfhy and moift meadows 
where water generally lodges, and in ditches, 
where few others would grow, this grafs would 
be valuable to the grazier or farmer. It is a 
fpecies of which cattle are remarkably fond, and 
in queft of which they often rifk their lives. 
There are many ufelefs fpots for the cultivation of 
grain on farms, fuch as marfhes, ditches, or {pots 
in which water lodges, but which have no depth 
of foil for tillage. In fuch places this would be a 
very ufeful and beneficial grafs; for it is abundant 
in leaves and ftems, and grows remarkably faft 
after being eat down; fo that while cattle would 
be foraging after and picking it in fuch places, 
time would be afforded for the recovery of the 
higher pafture elfewhere, for I have remarked, 
that cattle will continue browfing an hour or 
two on a very {mall compas where this grafs is. 
‘J therefore 
