160 



Pi 



Cenisia. Soft Meadow-g 



Specific character: Panicle diffuse, nodding; spikets oblong 5-7 flowered; 

 at the base by a villus; sheath-scale short; root fibrous. . Flo. Ger. 422. 



Obs. 



between 



the Poa laxa and Foa alpina. It differs from the 

 first, to which it is nearest aUied, in the culms being twice the height, and roundish towards 

 the top; sheath-scale short; panicle diffuse, but always contracted before and after flower- 



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ing; spikets larger, oblong 5-7 flowered. From the Poa alpina it differs also as above, but 

 chiefly in the panicle, which is nodding, spikets oblong, and florets free. 



Native of Germany. Root perennial. Flo, Ger.; Host. 3, p. 11, t. 16. 



Experiments. — At the time of flowering, the produce from a sandy loam, is, 



dr. qr. 



oz. 



22 

 44 



Grass, 10 oz. The produce per acre 



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 



The produce of the space, ditto 



108900 



lbs. 



r 



6806 4 



29947 8 



1871 11 8 



4934 8 8. 



2 

 6 



3828 8 



^59 4 8 



This is an alpine species of grass, and attains to a greater size than most others of the same 

 class J but it is a native of the Alps of the fertile duchy of Carinthia, in Germany. It is rather 

 late in the produce of foliage in the spring, and does not afford much after-grass. Its nutritive 

 powers, as indicated by the quantity of nutritive matter it contains, is not superior to several 

 other grasses that afford a greater abundance of herbage throughout the season. It produces 

 flowers about the first and second weeks of July, and seeds in the second week of Auo;ust. 



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