LOLIUM ITALICUM SUTTONI, 



SUTTOiSr'S ITALIAH RYE GRASS. 



Annual or biennial. Eoot fibrous. Stems 2 to 

 4 feet, erect, stout, smooth. Leaves long, broad, 

 glabrous, and succulent ; sheaths slightly rough ; 

 ligule short and obtuse. Spikelets many-flowered, 

 sessile, distichous on a long rachis. Upper empty 

 glume only present in the terminal spikelet; lower 

 empty glume persistent, lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely 

 reaching to middle of spikelet. Flowering glumes 

 lanceolate. Awn as large as glume. Palea ciliate at 

 base. Flowers June and July. Not known in a wild 

 state. 



ANALYSIS. 



Grass in 

 Katural State. 



Water 60-84 



* Soluble albuminoids ..... -25 



**Insoluble albuminoids ..... 1-31 



Digestible fibre 11-46 



Woody fibre 11-09 



f Soluble mineral matter 1-35 



fflnsoluble mineral matter .... 1-10 

 Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &c. . 12-60 



100-00 



Dried at 

 212° Pabr. 



•75 



3-31 

 29-30 

 28-32 



3-47 



2-81 

 32-04 



100-00 



* Containing Nitrogen 

 ** Containing Nitrogen 



Non-albuminoid Nitrogen 



t Containiug Silica 

 ft Containing Silica 



Albuminoid Nitrogen 

 Total Nitrogen 



-04 

 -21 



•25 

 •10 



-24 

 •01 



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