PHLEUM PRATENSE. 



TIMOTHY, OR MEADOW OATSTA.IL. 



Piootstock perennial, somewhat creeping. Stems 

 1 to 3 feet, erect and smooth. Leaves short, flat, and 

 soft ; sheath smooth ; hgule oblong. Panicle spike - 

 like, cylindrical, elongate, and compact. Spikelets 

 one-flowered, laterally compressed. Empty glumes 

 larger than flowering glumes, equal, each with stiff 

 hairs on the keel and a short scabrid terminal awn. 

 Palea minute and pointed. Flowering glumes much 

 smaller than empty glumes, toothed and awnless. 

 Flowers end of June to August. Grows in meadows 

 and pastures throughout Europe, North Africa, Siberia, 

 and Western Asia. 



ANALYSIS. 



15G 



