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a short awn. Florets all facing one way. This grass is often viviparous ; in wet seasons 



Park under the trees. I have found the Ahnp 



Woburn 



I have found it generally so, in 



curus pratensis under the like circumstances viviparous. Root perennial. 

 Native of Britain. E. Bot. 316; Host. t. 96 ; Mart. t. 106; F. Dan. 238. 

 Experiments .—k\ the time of flowering, the produce from a brown loam. 



with 



dr. qr. ■ 



F 



Grass, 9 02. The produce per acre, is 

 80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry - - 24 



The produce of the space, ditto ^ - 43 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 



r 



OZ. 



98010 



29403 



32 



The produce of the space, ditto - ^ 



At the time the seed is ripe, the produce is 



r 



Grass, 18 oz. The produce per acre, 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry 



The produce of the space, ditto - - 115 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 



The produce of the space, ditto - • .- 



The produce of latter-math is. 

 Grass, 5 oz.. The produce per acre ^ 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 



4 1 



9 2f 



6508 3 



lbs. 



6125 10 

 1837 11 



i 



r 



4287 15 

 406 12 3 



196020 



ct 



78408 



2 2 

 11 1 



7657 



12251 4 



4900 



7350 12 



478 9 



% 2 per acre, 



.54450 

 2126 



3403 2 

 132 14 



The weight of nutritive matter which is lost, by taking the crop at the time of 

 flowering, exceeding one-sixth .of its value, is ^ ,. _ 



71 12 9 



The proportion in which the grass at the time of flowering exceeds that at the time the 

 seed is ripe, with respect to nutritive powers, is as I7 to 10, and is superior to the latter-matli 

 in the like proportion. 



The quantity of grass at the time the seed is ripe, is just twice that at the time of flowering; 

 but the grass at the former period contains nearly twice the quantity of nutritive matter, as 

 appears above; and when the latter-math, which would be produced during the time the seed 

 was ripening, is added to this, it shews the superior advantage of taking the crop when the 

 grass is in flower. The culms of this grass are of a wiry nature, and, at the time the seed is 

 ripe, contain no nutritive matter. The leaves are rather slow in growth, are short, but form a 

 dense turf; hence, the weight of grass at the time the seed is ripe, is greater than at the time 

 of flowering, but contains proportionally less nutritive matter. It is therefore inferior for 

 the purpose of hay, but admirably adapted for permanent pasture. The roots penetrate to a 

 considerable depth in the ground, from which circumstance, it continues green after most other 

 grasses are hurt by a continuance of dry weather. Mr. Curtis observes, that it affects a dry 

 sod, and that it will not thrive in meadows that are wet ; but I have always found it more 



abundant in moist, or rather tenacious elevated soik +Tio^ • 4^1. /- i • i «^tr 



. ^itjvdiea sous, than m those of a drier and more sandy 



. In irrigated meadows it thrives in T)erfprti*r.T. o++ • • . i • ^tr 



^ • ^^^^^ 1^1 perrection, attaining to a greater size than m any 



nature 



other situation. 



Wobui 



, , , . . . ^ ' -^ ^^^^^ constitutes the principal part of the 



herbage, on which the deer aijd South Down sheen rhi.fl,. T. ti i ^ .f the 



-D 1 1 . , . , . ^ , , ^P ^^letly browse, while another part o\ tlie 



Pari, wh,ch cons,s.. ch.efly pf the Apo^ti, capilhri., Jgrostls pu,„!la, f«*,.o« ovina. Bsm' 



dnnuscuh, and Fmuca ca„irica, k .eldom touched by them : but the Welsh breed of *ep 



