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MEADOW GRASSES. 



II. 



In Part II, we shall treat of the Meadow Grasses, in the order named 

 below : 



Timothy Red-Top or Herds Grassy-Tall Red-Top grass Orchard 

 grass Wood Meadow grass Rough-stalk Meadow grass Willard's 

 Brome or Chess English Rye grass Italian Rye grass Many-flow- 

 ered Darnell Crab or Crop grass Millet Hungarian grass- Barn 

 grass Bengal grass Gama grass Egyptian grass Meadow Oat grass 

 Means, Johnson or Egyptian grass Red Clover Alsike or Swedish 

 Clover Sapling Clover Crimson Clover Alfalfa or Lucerne Japan 

 Clover Esparsette or Sainfoin Vetch. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 TIMOTHY HERDS GRASS OR RED-TOP. 



TIMOTHY ( Phleum Pratense). 



Spikes cylindrical or elongated, glumes hairy on the back, tipped 

 with a bristle less than half their length ; leaves long, flat, rough, with 

 long sheaths ; root perennial, on moist soils fibrous, on dry ones bul- 

 bous, mostly bulbous. 



This grass is known in New, England as Herds grass, 

 from a Mr. Herd, who found it growing wild in New Hamp- 

 shire, and introduced it into cultivation. Further south, 







