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POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. 
HOLCUS. 
Hermarpy. Cal. Hufk of 1 or 2 flowers, 
Cor. 2 valves, outer one awned.. Stam... 3: 
Styles 2. Seed 1. vd 
Mate. Cal.. Hufk of 2 valves... Cor, either 
wanting or of 2 valves. Stam. 3. », 
H. Hukks woolly: hermaphrodite floret awn- 
lefs: male floret with a bent awn, inclofed 
in the calyx: roots fibrous. 
Common in meadows and paftures, particu- 
larly in light and moift foils, fuch as turf or 
peat lands. This grafs vegetates rather late in 
the feafon, yet produces an abundant crop. 
When fown feparate, it does -not continue 
more than four years. productive; nor do I 
confider it as a grafs fit to be fowed fepa- 
rate. It is a fpecies, if not mixed with other 
ftronger grafles, that rather inclines to be 
proftrate; and from its abundant produce of 
leaves 
lanatus. 
