POA PRATENSIS. 



SMOOTH-STALKED MEADOW GRASS. 



Eootstock perennial, creeping and stoloniferous. 

 Stems 1 to 2 feet, erect, smooth, and rather stout. 

 Leaves flat, rather broad and sHghtly concave at the 

 tip ; sheath smooth and longer than its leaf ; ligule 

 short and blunt. Panicle loose, spreading and pyra- 

 midal in shape. Spikelets four-flowered, compressed. 

 Empty glumes much webbed, lanceolate, almost equal. 

 Flowering glumes larger, webbed, keeled, and acute. 

 Palea short. Flowers June and early in July. Grows 

 in meadows and pastures throughout Europe, Siberia, 

 North Africa, and North America. 



ANALYSIS. 



Grass in Dried at 



Natural State. 212°Pahr. 



Water 65-81 — 



Soluble albuminoids — — 



*Insoluble albuminoids 1-81 5-31 



Digestible fibre 9-29 27-17 



Woody fibre 15-24 44-57 



f Soluble mineral matter .... 1-11 3-24 



fflnsoluble mineral matter .... 1-42 4-13 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &c. . 5-32 15-58 



100-00 100-00 



* Containing Nitrogen . . .... -29 -85 



Non-albuminoid Nitrogen . .... -15 .44 



Total Nitrogen -44 1-29 



■f Containing Silica .4O x-17 



ft Containing Silica .... ... 1-13 3-29 



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