274 HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBUHN ENSI S. 



variety of creeping bent, but the plant is not in the least 



stoloniferous.* 



Native of Britain. Root perennial, fibrous. 

 Experiments. At the time of flowering, the produce from a 



siliceous sandy soil is 



Produce per Acre, 

 dr. qr. Ibs. 



Grass, 10 oz. The produce per acre 6806 4 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry 40 7 /% 



The produce of the space, ditto - 80 3 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 3403 2 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 30) 

 The produce of the space, ditto 723 



At the time the seed is ripe, the produce is 

 Grass, 9 oz. The produce per acre 6125 10 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry 35 7 9679 15 f 



The produce of the space, ditto 63 3 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 3445 10 10 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 307 007 o 3 

 The produce of the space, ditto - 633 



The weight of nutritive matter which is lost by leav- 

 ing the crop till the seed be ripe, is - 31 14 8 

 The general appearance of this plant indicates the inferior com- 

 parative value manifested in the above details. It appears, accor- 

 ding to the information quoted above from Mr. Curtis, to be chiefly 

 confined to the sea-coasts. I have never met with it in a wild 

 state. It does not appear to be of much value to the Agriculturist. 

 Probably, however, in such places as are exposed to the spray of 

 the ocean, it may succeed better, and afford a greater produce ; its 

 nutritive powers are far from being very inconsiderable. It ripens 

 an abundance of seed which vegetates freely. In the figure and 

 disposition of the florets and panicle it seems to connect the A. ver- 

 ticillata, A. stolonifera, var. angustifolia, and A. alba, in a series. 



It flowers in the first week of August, and the seed is ripe about 

 the end of the same month. 



AGROSTIS stricta. Rock Bent, Upright Bent. 

 Trichodium rupestre. (Schrader.) 

 Specific character: Panicle branches subdivided, roughish ; calyx 



* Since this sheet was sent to the press, Mr. Taunton informs me, the Agroslis 

 lobata grows wild on a stiff wet clayey loam, part of the London blue clay, in the 

 parish of Cuddington, near Epsom, Surrey. 



