temulentum. 
118 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
ie cdot. 
TrisH. 
Raille caol. 
Encuitsu.—Slender Darnel-grafs. Slender Ray- 
grafs. 
Ob. Similar to the former in every refpect 
but being more flender, and its calyx being 
fomething longer, alfo its fpikets containing 
but three florets when in its wild ftate. 
L. Spike awned: fpikets fhorter than the 
calyx: ftems rough at top. 
Tt generally grows in ploughed lands, among 
oats, wheat, and fometimes flax. This grafs — 
bears ftems, leaves and feed in abundance ; 
the feeds are large, mealy and nutritive, and 
were it relifhed by cattle, when made into 
hay, muft be very fubftantial. 
It might be fown with red: clover, and 
would anfwer as fodder in a recent. flate. 
Its further utility, im an agricultural point of 
view, would be but little. In wheat and oat 
fields it is a great peft; the feed is often 
ground with them into meal, and when made 
inte bread, if eaten when hot, caufes a diz- 
zinefs 
