TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Ot 
* florets lance-fhaped, nearly columnar: root- 
leaves very natrow, ciliated with fine hairs. 
Plentiful on the lands of Santry and Coo- 
lock—along the fides of the Royal canal, and 
fouth fide of the river Toker, county of Dublin. 
_ From my obfervations on this fpecies, both in 
its wild and cultivated ftate, I confider it as a 
good grafs both for meadow and pafture. It is 
of good fize, not too coarfe, early in its fpring, 
quick in vegetation, and furnifhes exceedingly 
well in leaves and ftems. In laying down meas 
dows it would be a good grafs.as a mixture 5 
for although flender, it is an upright ftilf .grow- 
ing grafs, not apt to lodge, or be any way in- 
jured by high winds or heavy rains, and would 
be a mean of preferving others from thofe ca- 
fualties which otherwife might happen from their 
debility. It is my opinion, that in. laying down 
meadows, a portion of ftrong, ftiff, or coarfe 
graffes ought to be introduced, for the above 
purpofe; and as this fpecies anfwers both for 
meadow and aftergrafs, it would be a very defi- 
rable one for the purpofe. This day, Jan. 19th, 
it is more forward in its growth, by an inch and 
half ‘in the blade, than any other grafs in the 
P N2 Garden, 
