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The seed of this grass is introduced here 



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not because it possesses any very valuable proper- 

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from the seed of hassock-grass, (No. XL), which is so unprofitable 



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above 



once m possession of the soiL that some h 



and difficult to 



differs from that of the hassock 



awn, which is long, of a dark colour, and recurved 



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pplied to it the epithet execrabl 

 in being one half larger in 



top of the seed; the form of the seed is likewise 

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bent back a littl 



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before it reaches the 



more of an oblong figure, which a reference to 



POA 



pratensis. 



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Smooth-stalked, or creeping-rooted Mead 



ow Qouch'grass 



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XXXII. 



POA 



trivialis. 



Rough-stalked, 



or common Meadow-^m^^ 



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pratensis has a strong creeping root 



and 



great zmpoverisher of the soil, and with difficulty rooted out of land 



like every other creeping-rooted plant 



the Poa trivialis has 



