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rows of small spikelets, each containing about six flowers bearing 

 hair-like awns. The plant attains a great size, and when growing 

 amongst corn may be readily distinguished from other grasses. It 

 has quite a literary fame as the " only poisonous grass," but in truth 

 it is no more poisonous than a mushroom, which most of us are 

 prepared to eat at any time without the shadow of a fear. 



sheep's fescue, viviparous fobm. 



The garden is capable of affording immense aid in the study of 

 the grasses, and the collections which are grown as ornamental 

 plants comprise a number of British species which, as a rule, are 

 scarce as wild plants. They are valuable, too, for winter bouquets, 

 and far more pretty in their natural colours than dyed, as we see 

 them in the shops. As for variety, it is truly wonderful that so 

 simple a type should be capable of the variations which we find in 



July. 



