FIORIN WHITE CLOVER. 207 



PIORIN, BENT Q"RA&8.~-(Agros& alba.) 



Stem hollow or soon becoming so, spikelets in panicles, sometimes 



crowded, but never so as to form 

 a spike, flowers one and perfect in 

 each spikelet, with or without ru- 

 diments of oth'ers, stamens three, 

 rarely fewer, stems with procum- 

 bent or creeping base, ligule long 

 and conspicuous, panicle more 

 dense, greenish or slightly purplish. 

 Perennial. 



Florin is quite popular in 

 England as a meadow grass, 

 and is known as 'Bent grass 7 

 or White Bent. It belongs 

 to the same family as the 

 herds grass, and is very like 

 it. It is nourishing, and 

 makes a good grass for pas- 

 tures. In Tennessee it can- 

 not hold rank with many 

 others as a meadow grass, but 

 it is of sufficient value to de- 

 serve mention. 



WHITE CLOVEB.-(!ZH/b/mmrepens.) 



Its stems are spreading, slender, creeping; leaves inversely heart- 

 shaped; flower heads small, white; pods four-seeded,. roots perennial; 

 flowers from May to September. 



White Clover has been lauded to the skies by some, and 

 by others depreciated as a vile weed. It is beyond question 

 next to blue grass, one of our most valuable grazing plants. 

 Its analysis shows it to be equal to red clover in most re- 

 spects, and superior as a fat producing plant 



