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Sromus multifli 



ifi 



Many-flowered Brome 



-srrass. 



flowers imbricated ; awn straight ; leaves woolly. Host. t. 1 1 , 

 Obs.—By attending to the form of the spikets, this species may readily be distinguished from 



the Bromus arvensiSy whose 



ipear 



The Bromus mollis may likg. 



wise he distinguished from the Bromus arvensis, by the same character; and from the^^o 



^ 



mulfifli 



mus multiflorus by its downy hairs, which cover the spikets ; the 

 and B. multiflorus, being naked. This is nearer to the Bromut 

 than to the Bromus secalinus. 



Native of Britain. Root annual. 



Experiments, ^~r- Ax the time of flowering, the produce from a sandy loam, is. 



dr. qr 



-* - 44 



290 



Grass, 3^ oz. The produce per acre A 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry - 



The produce of the space, ditto 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter - , 5 



The produce of ,the space, ditto 



oz. 



lbs. 



359370 



197653 8 



- 41 1 



^8075 12 



V 



22460 10 

 12353 5 .8 

 10107 4 S 



1754 11 12 



4 



On comparing the quantity of nutritive matter afforded by the produce of one acre of this 

 grass at the time of flowering, with that afforded under the like circumstances by the Bromm 

 arvensis, It manifests a superiority of 266]bs. per acre. This, and also the superior nutritive 

 qualities of the grass, appear to arise from the greater proportion of culms in the produce of 

 the Many-flowered Brome-grass; for though the cuJms of the Brotnus arvensis grow to a much 



multifli 



ultifli 



Tb 



the spring produce of foliage Is proportionally less ; so much so, as 2 to 1 . If there was any 

 doubt of rejecting the Field Brome-grass as unfit for cultivation, there can be none for the Many- 

 flowered Brome-grass, because it Is Inferior In almost every respect. It Is natural to soils of a 

 less rich nature, than those which produce the superior pasture grasses, and the Bromus arven- 

 sis. It flowers about the second week of July, and the seed Is generally ripe in three weefe 

 iafterwards. 



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