ITS NOETH-CAEOLINA GEOLOGICAL SUE YET. 



LOL1UM MULTIFLOEUM MANY-FLO WEEED DAENEL. 



This grass is so little known in this country, that it may be 

 passed over without remark. 



TKITICUM WHEAT. 



Flowers in spikes ; spikelets imbricate sessile ; J flowered. 

 Glume two, nearly equal opposite ; palese lanceolate ; the 

 lower concave acaminate awned ; scales two ciliate. . 



Wheat is supposed to have been indigenous to Central or 

 South-western Asia. It is known to have been cultivated 

 from the earliest times. 



Like the Indian corn its varieties are numerous, amounting 

 at the present time to about S'OO, which are known to be un- 

 der cultivation. 



The characters of these varieties are essentially the same. 

 The modifications affecting merely its appendages without ex- 

 tending to its essential characteristics. The character of the 

 soil influences the value of the grain ; it is always richer and 

 better on rich substantial soils. When grown upon those 

 which abound in vegetable matter its grain is light. 



TEITICTJM BEPENS COUCH-GEASS SWITCH-GEASS DOG GEASS 



DUTCH-GEASS QTTACK-GEASS. 



It has an erect stem, with smooth joints, two upper most 

 remote; spikelets close pressed, leaves acute, upper one 

 broadest ; sheaths striated, roots creeping extensively. Intro- 

 duced from Europe ; flowers in June,. 



This grass is cut in blossom, is relished by cattle, and 

 makes a nutritious hay. In gardens and other cultivated 

 grounds it becomes a great pest, from the difficulty of eradi- 

 cating it. Its roots are short-jointed, and send out fibres from 

 all of them, in consequence of which it grows and maintains 

 itself when a single joint remains, besides it is tenacious of 

 life, and does not readily die when left upon the earth's sur- 

 face. 



This grass cut in May 13, gave, 



