TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 1kS 
upright, fpike-like; branches fhort, upright, and 
lying clofe. Calyx, valves nearly equal, acute, 
rough on the keel, and fomewhat longer than 
the floret. Corol/a, valves lance-fhaped, unequal, 
rough on the keel: outer valve gnawed-like at 
top and enclofing the inner. 
LOLIUM. 
Cal, 1-valve, fitting, many-flowered: florets 
2-rowed. 
L. Spike awnlefs: fpikets comprefled, many- perenne. 
flowered, longer than the calyx. 
A very common grafs in meadows, paftures, 
way-fides and wafte places.. It is a good grafs 
for either meadow or pafture. As a meadow 
grafs, when in mixture with others, or even 
feparate, it is valuable, from its ftems being 
abundant, of good fize, not coarfe, and its feed 
being nutritive; it alfo carries weight, though 
it-does not Bulk well. As a pafture grafs, it 
is hardy, early, continuing its verdure during 
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