TIMOTHY. 75 



MEADOW GRASSES. 



PAET II. 



In Part II, we shall treat of the Meadow Grasses, in the order named 

 below : 



Timothy— Red-Tap or Herds Grass — Tall Red-Top grass — Orchard 

 grass — Wood Meadow grass — Rough-stalk Meadow grass — Willard's 

 Brome or Chess — English Rye grass — Italian Rye grass— Many-flow- 

 -ered Darnell — Crab or Crop grass- — Millet-^Hungarian grass — Barn 

 grass — Bengal grass — Gama grass — ^Egyptian grass — Meadow Oat grass — 

 Means, Johnson or Egyptian grass — Red Clover— Alsike or Swedish 

 Clover — Sapling Clover — Crimson Clover — Alfalfa or Lucerne — Japan 

 Clover — Esparsette or Sainfoin — Vetch. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Timothy— Heeds Grass oe Red-top. 



TIMOTHY— ( Phleum Pralemse). 



Spikes cylindrical or elongated, glumes hairy on the back, tipped 

 with a bristle less man half their length ; leaves long, flat, rough, with 

 long sheaths ; root perennial, on moist soils fibrous, on dry ones bul- 

 bous, mostly bulbous. 



This grass is known in New England as Herds grass, 

 from a Mr. Herd, who found it growing wild in New Hamp- 

 shire, and introduced it into cultivation.' Further south, 



