loliacea. 
84 - TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
nearly upright: branches alternate, fpreading. 
Spikets alternate, nearly fitting, lying clofe to the 
branches, ftrap-fhaped, containing from 8 to 
10 florets. Calyx, valves fkinny, blunt, with a 
green keel. Corolla, inner valve notched at the 
end. It is often found with the panicle fcarcely 
branched, and fometimes {pike-like. 
F. Spike 2-rowed, drooping: fpikets nearly 
fitting, many-flowered, diftant, awnlefs. 
It grows in low moift meadows, particularly 
along river fides. This is a good meadow and 
pafture grafs, furnifhing plenty of foliage and 
flower ftems, and where it happens to be in a 
meadow, caufes a good fward. It alfo gives very 
good aftergrafs. A circumftance attending this 
fpecies is, that it does*not produce feed; for 
although it flowers as perfectly in appearance as 
any other grafs, yet a fingle feed is not formed 
within the flower. Therefore unlefs growing 
naturally in fome part of a farm, it does not 
anfwer the agriculturift; for were he to culti- 
vate it in quantity, he fhould colleé& the plants 
from fuch fpots as naturally produce it. 
P. June. July. 
IRIsP 
