HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. 



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though it is to be met with on most of them. Sheep are said to 

 be very fond of this grass, but as far as I have had opportunity 

 to observe, they only crop the foliage in the spring, till the finer 

 natural grasses afford them a bite. It offers, therefore, no parti- 

 cular merit to warrant a recommendation for the purposes of the 

 Agriculturist. 



It flowers about the third week of April, and the seed is ripe 

 about the third week of May. 



PHALARIS arundinacem. 

 Fl. i. p. 74. 



Reed Canary-grass. Sm. Engl. 



Arundo colorata. Hort Kew. i. p. 174. Striped Reed Canary- 

 grass. Hort. Gram. Fol. 253. 



Phalaris arundinacea. E. Bot. t. 402 ; Host. 2, t. 33. Reed 

 Canary-grass. 



Calamagrostis variegata. Wither. Arr. ii. p. 124. Ladies'- 

 traces, Painted Lady-grass, Gardeners'-garters. 



Specific character : Panicle upright, with spreading branches ; 

 flowers crowded, unilateral; outer corolla of two bearded 

 valves. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 74. 



Obs. Root creeping, jointed ; culms from two to six feet in 

 height ; leaves harsh, flat, taper-pointed, striated ; stipula 

 short, bluntish, decurrent ; valves of the calyx with two ribs 

 on each side, not much larger than the corolla, hairy at the 

 edges, and furnished with a small, slender, hairy appendage 

 on each side ; the outer valve not rolled in ; nectaries two, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, with one tooth on the outer edge ; 

 seed oval, flatted, and shining. Hort. Gram. Fol. 253. 



German, Rohrblattriges Glanzgras. 



Native of Britain. Perennial. 



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

 black sandy loam incumbent on clay is 



Produce per Acre. 



dr. qr. 







Ibs. 

 27225 



12251 4 



Grass, 40 oz. The produce per acre 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry - 36 



The produce of the space, ditto - 288 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 14973 12 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 4 ") ,Q, g 



The produce of the space, ditto - 40 3 



