MINUTES OF 



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On Natural Grasses. 



i\re«?«V//, flowciing in June. 



Root fibrose, turfy, with smootl^ black, capillary fibres. Stems a^anhigh, 

 iglit, simple, slender, stiffish, smooth, leafy at the base, and iQtragonal chief- 

 ly towards the tip.^ Lekves various both in length and direction, very narrow, 

 tpgiilar-setacfeous, sharp, rough, often glaucescent. Sheaths striated, smooth. 

 i.j^nilc very short. Panicle lanceolate, branching, with the midrib and footstalks 

 ui gular, bubflexuous, and rough. Spikelets upright, ovate-lancgplate, smooth. 

 Calycine glumes unequal, linear-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, keeled, cornered, 

 sii^ooth, Floscules four or five, rather remote, roundish, a little compressed, 

 scarcely keeled, without nerves, smooth, very smodth at the base, but towards 

 thc'tij} roughened by minute tubercles, often mutic, sometimes, (as in the Linnean 

 : . i)a^upi) awned with rough awns which are upright and of various lengths, 

 ■ r valve mutic, rather sharp, concave, with perfectly smooth sub re volute 



A^iETY. diifers only in the purple color of the panicle. In the flowers arc 

 -;■: but the leaves upright, and subflaccid, dr slightly stiff and incurved, arc 



<i( ^ '"uliar to any variety. 



, liis grass, though introduced here, is not intitled to the encoc^iums which 

 • . le writer^ have bestowed upon it. 



T V an experiment made upon all the grasses recommended here, which were 



«Wti each upon separate beds or plats upon a lightish dry soil, and grazed pro- 



. luiscuouly with sheep; I found this gr^ss was never so close fed down as the 



other seven. This grass delights most in dly pastures, and sunny hills, and is not 



prpductive. 



VI. Festuca Pratensis. Meadow Fescue Grass. 

 Fescue with suberect, lax, one-sided panicle, with linear, compressed, sub- 

 obtuse spikelets, and cylindric obscurely-nerved floscules. 

 Perennial, flowering in June and July. 

 Root fibrose. Stems several, erect, about two feet high, simple, round^ 



