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permanency. This grass is making fair progress with 

 me this season, notwithstanding the dry weather ex- 

 perienced during the months of May and June. The 

 seed of Meadow Fox Tail is covered with the soft and 

 woolly husks of the flower while the large glume is 

 furnished with an awn, these peculiarities account for 

 the small weight of a bushel of its seeds. A bushel 

 jofjseed only weighs 5 pounds. About 2 pounds of 

 seed is sufficient to enter into a mixture with other 

 grass for permanent meadow or pasture. 



CHAPTER VII, 



TALL OAT GRASS. 



ArrTienatherum Avenaceum Specific Character. 



Spikelets, open panicled; two flowered, lower 

 flower staminate, bearing a long bent awn below the 

 middle of the back; leaves, flat, acute, roughish on both 

 sides, most on the inner; panicle leaning slightly on 

 one side; glumes, very unequal; stems, from two to 

 three feet high; root, perrennial, fibrous, sometimes 

 bulbous. Observations. This grass is the avena 

 elatior of Linneus. Flowers from May to July, 

 WAY'S ANALYSIS. 



100 parts as taken green from the field July 17th. 



Water : 72. 6,> 



Albuminous or flesh forming principles 3.54 



Fatty matter 87 



Heat producing principles, starch, sugar, gum, etc 11.21 



Woody fibre 9.37 



Mineral matter or ash 2.3(> 



100.00 



