TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 101 
AVENA. 
Cal. 2-valved, many-flowered: awn from the 
back of the bloffom, twifted. 
A. Panicled: calyx 2-flowered: male floret 
awned: hermaphrodite floret fometimes awn- 
lefs: roots bulbous. 
It grows in meadows, paftures, wet damp 
places, and hollow ways. This grows very 
tall, furmounting all others in meadows where 
it naturally inhabits. It is a good grafs as 
hay, furnifhing well in leaves and ftems, and 
has the good property of fending forth after- 
grafs in abundance. It is not very apt to lodge, 
‘and it continues flowering fucceflively a con- 
fiderable time. It anfwers in moft foils, and 
is not choice in its fituations. Were an equal 
quantity of the feed of Poa trivialis and Poa 
nemoralis mixed, and if to this quantity in mix- 
ture were added an equal quantity of the 
Avena elatior, I fhould imagine a good crop 
of hay would be the refult. For Avena ela- 
tior being a tall-grafs, fomewhat coarfe and 
ftrong, it would in fuch proportion be a fup- 
port 
elatior. 
