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Mronius pinnafus. Wing-spiked Brome 



E. Bot. 730 



Festuca pinnata. Wing-spiked Fescue-grass. Flo. Ger. i. p. 343. 



Specific character: Spike erect; spikets a little distant, awned; awns after flowerin 1 



spreading, shorter than the husks ; root creeping. 

 Ohs. — The whole plant is of a yellowish green colour. Culms numerous, eighteen ' T. 



and more in height, upright, roundish, slightly scored, smooth and unhranched L 



erect, linear spear-shaped. Spike-stalk flexuose, rough; spikets rather distant lin 

 first roundish, afterwards a little compressed, many-ilowered, awned, pubescent 



Native of Britain. Root perennial, creeping. 



Experiments. — At the time of flowering, the produce from a siliceous sandy soil with 



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Grass, 30 oz. The produce per acre 



80 dr. of grass weigh when dry 7 



The produce of the space, ditto 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 



Q^ dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter - 1 



The produce of the space, ditto - -9 



dr. qr. 



oz- lis. 



326700 = 20418 12 



- 130680 



8I67 8 

 12251 4 



6380 13 



398 12 



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in any other light than a noxious weed; for though the weight of produce is considerable, it is 

 neither early, nutritive, nor relished by cattle. It grows chiefly in dry hilly woodlands, parti- 

 cularly where the soil is calcareous. This, and the Bromus syhaticus, which is likewise an inha- 

 bitant of woods, where the soil is siliceous, may be considered the least useful of the British 



f^rasses, M 

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It flowers about the third week of July, and the seed is ripe about the last week in August. 



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