POA PRATENSIS, 



SMOOTH-STALKED MEADOW GRASS. 



Eootstock perennial, creeping and stoloniferous. 

 Stems 1 to 2 feet, erect, smooth, and rather stout. 

 Leaves flat, rather broad and sHghtly concave at the 

 tip; sheath smooth and longer than its leaf; ligule 

 short and blunt. Panicle loose, spreading and pyra- 

 midal in shape. Spikelets four-flowered, compressed. 

 Empty glumes much webbed, lanceolate, almost equal. 

 Flowering glumes larger, webbed, keeled, and acute. 

 Palea short. Flowers June and early in July. Grows 

 in meadows and pastures throughout Europe, Siberia, 

 North Africa, and North America. 



ANALYSIS. 



Water . 



Soluble albuminoids 

 *Insoluble albuminoids 



Digestible fibre 



Woody fibre . 

 f Soluble mineral matter 

 ft Insoluble mineral matter 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &c 



Grass iu 

 Natural State. 



65-81 



1-81 

 9-29 

 15-24 

 1-11 

 1-42 

 5-82 



Dried at 



212° Pahr. 



lOU-00 



* Contaiuing Nitrogen .59 



Noa-albuminoid Nitrogen .15 



Total Nitrogen -44 



t Containing Silica .40 



tt Containing Silica [ I-IS 



158 



