ITS NORTH-CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM MANY-FLOWERED DARNEL. 



This grass is so little known in this country, that it may be 

 passed over without remark. 



TRITICUM WHEAT. 



Flowers in spikes ; spikelets imbricate sessile ; { flowered. 

 Glume two, nearly equal opposite j palese lanceolate ; the 

 lower concave acaminate awned ; scales two ciliate. 



Wheat is supposed to have been indigenous to Central or 

 South-western Asia. It is known to have been cultivated 

 from the earliest times. 



Like the Indian corn its varieties are numerous, amounting 

 at the present time to about 300, which are known to be un 

 der cultivation. 



The characters of these varieties are essentially the same. 

 The modifications affecting merely its appendages without ex 

 tending to its essential characteristics. The character of the 

 soil influences the value of the grain ; it is always richer and 

 &quot;better on rich substantial soils. When grown upon those 

 which abound in vegetable matter its grain is light. 



TRITICUM REPENS COUCH-GRASS SWITCH-GRASS DOG-GRASS 



DUTCH-GRASS QUACK-GRASS. 



It has an erect stem, with smooth joints, two upper most 

 remote; spikelets close pressed, leaves acute, upper one 

 broadest ; sheaths striated, roots creeping extensively. Intro 

 duced from Europe ; flowers in June. 



This grass is cut in blossom, is relished by cattle, and 

 makes a nutritious hay. In gardens and other cultivated 

 grounds it becomes a great pest, from the difficulty of eradi 

 cating it. Its roots are short-jointed, and send out fibres from 

 all of them, in consequence of which it grows and maintains 

 itself when a single joint remains, besides it is tenacious of 

 life, and does not readily die when left upon the earth s sur 

 face. 



This grass cut in May 13, gave, 



