HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBUUNENSIS. 399 



Produce per Acre. 

 dr. qr. Ibs. 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 11680 1 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 80 > Qg ^ r Q 

 The produce of the space, ditto 500 5 



This variety is very hardy, being able to bear the severest of 

 our winter frosts. It is considerably superior to the preceding 

 species in point of produce, and affords a superior quantity of 

 nutritive matter. But neither of these plants appears to possess 

 sufficient merits to rank it above the class of annual weeds. 

 The seeds are larger than any of the natural annual grasses, and 

 approach to the size of the cultivated grain crops. Birds are very 

 fond of the seeds. Linnaeus says, that when mixed with bread 

 corn, these seeds produce but little effect unless the bread be 

 eaten hot; but if malted with barley, the ale soon occasions 

 drunkenness. It is said,* that when made into bread with a small 

 proportion of wheat, and eaten repeatedly, it produced vomiting, 

 purging, violent colics, and death. 



Flowers about eight days before the common variety, and the 

 seed is perfected nearly at the same time as the seeds of that 

 variety. 



PHALARIS Canariensis. Manured Canary-grass. 



Specific character: Panicle spike-like, ovate; husks of the 

 calyx boat-shaped, apex quite entire ; corolla four-valved, 

 outer smooth, inner villose. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 74. 



Obs. Culms from six inches to three feet high, according to 

 the richness of the soil, erect, roundish, somewhat com- 

 pressed ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, flat, rough ; florets 

 ovate-compressed, outer convex, inner somewhat concave ; 

 nectary, two fleshy concave pear-shaped substances on the 

 outside of the base of the corolla. Schrader ; Engl. Bot. 

 1310; Flo, Rust. t. 17; Wither, iii. 113; Hort. Gram. 

 Fol. 303. 



Native of the Canary Isles, now also of England, France, Spain, 

 and New Zealand. Root annual. 



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

 rich clayey loam on a tenacious subsoil is 



* Monthly Review, vol. Ixvii. p. 559. Withering. 



