OF GRASSES AND PLANTS USED IN FARMING. 



641 



,, f maximum (a) 

 f Paspalum stoloniferum (bj 

 Phalaris canarlensis 



* arundinacea 



* Pbleum pratense 



* Poa stolonifera (of Haller) 



,, trivia Us 



,, * pratensis 



3 , aquatica 



* nervata 



* compress a 



,, * viridis 



Polygonum Fagopyrum 

 Poterium Sanguisorba, 

 Rheum palmatum 

 JRubia tinctorum 

 Secale cereale, v. vernum 



v. hybernum 

 f Solanum tuberosutn 

 Trifolium pratense 



repens 



,, ocbroleucum 

 Trlticum cestivum 



,, bybernum 



,, turgidum 



polonicum 



Spelt a 

 Vicia sativa 

 f Zea Mays 



Guinea-grass 



Peruvian-grass 



Common Canary 



Reedy Canary-grass (wet soils, and to fix 



Banks} 



Timothy-grass (a moist heavy soil) 

 Creeping Meadow-grass (wet meadows) 

 Rough-stalked do. (moist soil) 

 Smooth. stalked do. (dry soil) 

 Water Meadow-grass (swampy soil) 

 Five-nerved do. (wet meadows) 

 Blue grass (dry fields) 

 Green-grass (rich and tolerably moist) 

 Buck Wheat 



Field Burriet (dry good soil) 

 True Officinal Rhubarb 

 Dyer's Madder 

 Spring Rye 

 Winter Rye 

 Common Potatoe 



Common Red Clover (moderately dry 

 White Clover (dry soil) 

 Yellow Clover (dry ground) 

 Spring Wheat 

 Winter Wheat 

 Turgid or Cone Wheat 

 Polish Wheat 

 Spelt Wheat 

 Common Vetch or Tare 

 Indian Corn 



(a} This grass is by much too tender to bear the winter frosts of the middle 

 or eastern states, but succeeds well in Georgia, and in the warmest parts of 

 South Carolina. < 



(b) This is nearly as tender as the preceding, and therefore not answerable 

 for the middle or eastern states. The Avena elatior or tali Oat-grass, /.y by 

 mista&e called Pervian and Andes grass, in the county of Delaware, near 

 Philadelphia, and in part of the state of Delaware, where it is cultivated: it & 

 called meadow oats, about Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 



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