AGROSTIS ALBA-YAR. STOLONIFERA. 



FIORIN", OR OREEPIITG BENT aRASS. 



Boots creeping, rootstock perennial and stoloni- 

 ferous. Stems 6 inches to 3 feet. Leaves numerous, 

 flat, short, and usually scabrid ; sheath rough ; ligule 

 long and acute. Panicle spreading, with whorled 

 branches. Spikelets one-flowered, small. Empty glumes 

 larger than flowering glumes, unequal, smooth, and 

 awnless. Flowering glumes slightly hairy at the base, 

 with occasionally a minute awn. Palea minute and 

 cloven at the point. Flowers from July to September. 

 Grows in pastures and damp places throughout 

 Europe, Siberia, North Africa, and North America. 



ANALYSIS. 



Grass in Dried at 



Natural State. 212° Eahr. 

 Water .... ... 67-22 — 



* Soluble albuminoids . . -06 -lO 



**Insoluble albuminoids 1-44 4-37 



Digestible fibre . . 10-14 30-93 



Woody fibre . 13-30 40-57 



-fSoluble mineral matter .... 1-85 5-64 



fflnsoluble mineral matter ... -98 2-98 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &c. . 5-01 15-32 



100-00 100-00 



* Containing Nitrogen . -01 -03 



** Containing Nitrogen -21 -70 



Albuminoid Nitrogen -24 -73 



Non-albuminoid Nitrogen -la -58 



Total Nitrogen ^43 1-31 



t Containing Silica -17 -SI 



tt Containing Silica . . -60 1-83 



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