now to enow good grasses. 



Gl 



from the Lolium Italicum, the florets and seeds of 

 which are awned-pointed, as at a. This latter is 

 useful as an annual self-crop, but seedsmen too often 

 mix it in permanent -pasture collections, for the reason 

 that it grows faster, and so makes a show the first 

 year, and so satisfies the customer ; hut it soon 

 dies out, while its large growth has kept under the 

 more enduring forms, b represents a hunch of the 

 tumid flowers of the Lolium temulenium (Drunken 

 Darnel), once a pest in cornfields, hut now, fortunately, 

 of rare occurrence, if we 

 are to believe the tales 

 told of its so-called poi- 

 sonous seeds. 



The Cocksfoot (Dacty- 

 lis glomerata, fig. 18), 

 though a large and some- 

 what coarse grass, is by 

 no means inferior iu qua- 

 lity, its hay being highly 

 nutritious, whilst its cut 

 or cropped herbage is so 

 quick of growth that it is 

 capable of yielding a great 

 deal of keep. It sends 

 its root deep into the soil, 

 so that it can grow w T ell 

 in poor land if dry ; but it 

 never flourishes in very 

 wet situations. It is con- 

 stant in good meadows, 

 unless when they are al- 

 ways depastured, as there 

 greatly interferes with it : 



Fig. 18. The Cocksfoot. 



the constant treading 

 it is, therefore, by no 



