BOUGH-STALKED MEADOW GRASS. 



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Though it has never, 

 to ' my knowledge, been 

 cultivated in this country, 

 it appears to me worthy 

 of attention for moist soils. 

 It is certainly to be classed 

 among the good-shaded 

 pasture grasses, furnish- 

 ing a fine, succulent, and 

 very nutritive herbage, 

 which cattle are very fond 

 of. 



The Rough-stalked 

 Meadow Grass {Poa tri- 

 vialis), though not so 

 common as the .June 

 grass {Poa 2)ratensis), is 

 still often met with, and 

 is found to have webbed 

 florets ; outer palea five- 

 ribbed, marginal ribs not 

 hairy, ligule long and 

 pointed, stems two to 

 three feet high. Dis- 

 tinguished from June 

 grassbyhavingrough 

 sheaths, while in the 

 latter the sheaths 

 are smooth, the ligule 

 obtuse, and the mar- 

 ginal ribs of "ouTer 

 palea furnished with 

 Pig. 64. Wood Meadow Qraaa. Kg. 55. hairs. It differs from 

 June grass also in several other respects. The rough- 

 stalked meadow gtass has a fibrous root, that of the 

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