136 POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. 
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fide, and in fuch produces much foliage. I 
don’t confider it as a fit grafs for cultivation 
in meadows, except for its leaves, or that by 
its creeping roots it might bind the furface of 
the earth, and prevent the ground from crack- 
ing in very dry weather, which is a thing that 
often happens. Cows, horfes and fheep eat it. 
P. July. Aug. 
jhiees eee YADEALZAT. 
Minfbér fadzhalgach. 
Encuisu.—Long-awned Soft-grafs- Creeping 
Soft-gra/fs. 
Ob. Roots creeping, widely extending. Stems 
folitary, afcending, leafy, {mooth, woolly on the 
knots. Sheath-/cale roundifh, dentated. Panicle 
upright, loofe, thinly fet, purplifh-white ; little 
branches moftly in pairs, hair-like, villous. 
Calyx, valves nearly equal, ciliated on the keel. 
Florets as in the former, but hairy at the bafe. 
Z4wn twice the length of the bloffom. 
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