ROUGH-STALKED MEADOW GRASS. 



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Fig. 54. "Wood Meadow Grass. 



Fig. 55. 



Though it has never, 

 to my knowledge, been 

 cultivated in this country, 

 it appears to me worthy 

 of attention for moist soils. 

 It is certainly to be classed 

 among the good-shaded 

 pasture grasses, furnish- 

 ing a fine, succulent, and 

 very nutritive herbage, 

 which cattle are very fond 

 of. 



THE ROUGH-STALKED 

 MEADOW GRASS (Poa tri- 

 vialis), though not so 

 common as the June 

 grass (Poa pratensis], is 

 still often met with, and 

 is found to have webbed 

 florets ; outer palea five- 

 ribbed, marginal ribs not 

 hairy, ligule long and 

 pointed, stems two to 

 three feet high. Dis- 

 tinguished from June 

 grass by havingrough 

 sheaths, while in the 

 latter the sheaths 

 are smooth, the ligule 

 obtuse, and the mar- 

 ginal ribs of outer 

 palea furnished with 

 hairs. It differs from 



June grass also in several other respects. The rough- 

 stalked meadow grass has a fibrous root, that of the 

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