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N ORTH-CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



(FiG. 6.) 



befit on moist lands. 



A. odoratum. Sweet scented ver 

 nal grass. (tig. 6) Its stem is erect, 

 rough at the summit, leaves hairy, 

 sheaths striate, pubescent at the 

 throat. Glumes are acute, hairy and 

 membranaceotis. Flowers in ap- 

 pressed panicles, root perennial, 

 grows from twelve to fifteen inches 

 high flowers in May and June. 



This grass owes all the importance 

 which it possesses to its fragrance. 

 It is true, that it is an early grass ; 

 and hence, may be eaten, still it is 

 not much relished. It appears, how 

 ever, that it is consumed with the 

 other grasses among which it grows, 

 and imparts to the milk of cows a 

 pleasant taste, which is more partic 

 ularly given to the butter. 



PHLETJM PRATENSE TIMOTHY, OR HERDS 



GRASS OF NEW ENGLAND CATS-TAIL 

 GRASS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



The flowers are arranged in dense 

 cylindrical spikes. It has two equal 

 mucronate glumes, which are longer 

 than the paleaB s, they include two 

 truncate, boat shaped paleae, without 

 awns. 



This species has aft erect smooth, 

 stern, with flat linear-lanceolate 

 leaves, whose sheaths are longer 

 than the joints ; glumes equal, ciliate 

 and hairy root fibrous, often bulbous. 

 Flowers in June and July, and grows 

 It grows to the height of two and a half 



feet. It was introduced into Maryland by Timothy Hanson, 

 from whom it derived its name. This grass is difficult to 



