120 



Fig. 114. PHXEUM PRATENSE L. Sp. PI. 59. 1753. TIMOTHY.— A peren- 

 nial with erect, simple culms 3-12 dm. ( l°-4°) high and dense, cylindrical, spike- 

 like panicles 2..5-10 cm. (I'-l') long. Empty glumes (a) compressed, keeled, 

 ciliate along the keels, and abruptly mucronate or short awn-pointed; flower- 

 ing glume (5 j much shorter than the empty ones, thin, truncate. Palea about 

 as long as the glume. The stamens and pistil are shown in b.— Widely culti- 

 vated and completely naturalized in fields, waysides, and waste ground 

 throughout the United States and British America. (Europe and Asia. ) June 

 to August. 



One of the best known and most widely cultivated of the hay grasses. It 

 .sometimes attains the height of 5 feet and the heads or panicles 6 to 10 inches. 



