Agroptis ramosissima, Lateral-braiicliiiig Bent- 



k^l* 



rass. 



wci/it 



ing at each joint. 



This is nearly allied to the Agroslis Mexicana; the culms are taller and 

 lateral branches more numerous, shorter, and pointing one way ; leaves siToTtV^^'L ^' 

 those of the ^.iJfe^2V«?2a;' panicle more compact, or heaped together, which i 

 the appearance of a spike ; calyx shorter than the corolla, with very few hairs at the ba'^'^^ 

 which are long and numerous in the Mexicana, Flowers a month later than that ' '^'^' 

 £^^er^Wy^^^.— At the time of flowering, the produce from a strong clayey loam, is ^^^^^*^*' 



Grass, 42 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 - - . 



dr. qr, 



oz. 



457380 



3^ 

 268 Of 



Ihs. 



28586 4 



1 82952 



11434 



2 



20 0: 



17152 4 



14293 2 



893 5 



This is one of the latest flowering grasses. It is remarkable for the number of branches that 

 issue from the joints of the stem; and the woody substance of the culms makes it approach to the 

 nature of a shrub. It affords little herbage till the beginning of summer, and flowers at so late 

 a period of the season, that excepting once, I have never been able to procure any perfect seed, 

 the frost generally destroying the panicles before the seed be perfected. The herbage is killed 

 by frost, but the roots suffer nothing from its effects. It is propagated by parting and planting 

 the roots early in the spring, or late in the autumn. The above details shew that it is neither 

 very productive nor nutritive. 



Flowers in the first or second week of October. 



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