TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 103 
Frequent in dry paftures and meéadows. This 
is not-avery prolific grafs, bearing but few ftems 
which are feeble, and its foliage fhort which are 
very bitter. It is an early grafs, and fheds its 
feed very foon afier being ripe. In an agricultu- 
ral. point of view of no great, value, unlefs asa 
variety. amongft others, being a fightly grafs, 
from its purplith and filyery white, flowers, 
P. June. 
GCopce clan. 
“¢ Coirce cluimhadb. 
Encuist.—Downey Oat-grafs.  Pubsfcent Oai- 
grafs. Poa 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems from 1 to 2 feet, 
upright, fimple, nearly cylindrical, fmooth, leafy. 
Leaves {preading, fhort, blunt, flat, covered each 
fide, as likewife the lower fheaths with foft downy 
IrRisH 
hairs. Panicle upright, fpike-like, not much 
branched, nearly inclining\one way. Calyx, valyes 
very unequal, rough on the keel, acute at top, 
awalefs: inner valve double the Jength of the 
outer. Corolla, inner valve  fmalleft, and nar- 
rowett, awnlefs and rough on the edge: outer 
valve with an awn placed on the back below 
the middle. Awn twice the length of the calyx. 
P. June. July. 
A. Panicle 
