LIV APPENDIX. 



64 dr. of the straws afford of nutritive matter 7 dr. 

 The nutritive powers of the straws simply, therefore, 

 exceed those of the leaves, in proportion as 28 to 8; 

 and the grass at the time of flowering, to that at the 

 time the seed is ripe, as 10 to 23; and the latter-math, 

 to the grass of the flowering crop as 8 to 10. 



The comparative merits of this grass will appear, 

 from the above particulars, to be very great; to which 

 may be added the abundance of fine foliage that it 

 produces early in the spring. In this respect it is 

 inferior to the Poaferti/is, and Pea anguestifolia only. 

 The value of the straws at the time the seed is ripe, 

 exceeds that of the grass at the time of flowering, as 

 28 to 10; a circumstance which increases its value 

 above many others ; for, by this property, its valuable 

 early foliage may be cropped, to an advanced period of 

 the season without injury to the crop of hay, which, in 

 other grasses which send forth their flowering straws 

 early in the season would cause a loss of nearly one 

 half of the value of the crop, as is clearly proved by 

 former examples ; and this property of the straws, 

 makes the plant peculiarly valuable for the purpose of 

 hay. 



LXXI. Phleum pratense. Var. minor. Wither. B. 

 2. 118. Var. 1. Meadow cat's-tail grass. 

 Var. Smaller. Nat of Britain. 



At the time of ripening the seed, the produce from a 



clayey loam, is oz. or .bs per acre 



Grass, 40 oz. The produce per acre 435600 27225 

 80 dr. of ffrass weigh when dry 34 clr 7 



The ^dtceor the space, ditto 2r2 d J 18513 - 11570 10 



