PIORIN — WHITE CLOVEE. 



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PIORIN, BENT QBJLS8.-(Agro8t* alba.) 



Stem hollow or soon becoming so, spikelets in panicles, sometimes 



crowded, but never so as to form 

 a spike, flowers one and perfect in 

 each spikelet, with or without ru- 

 diments of others, stamens three, 

 rarely fewer, stems with procum- 

 bent or creeping base, ligule long 

 and conspicuous, panicle more 

 dense, greenish or slightly purplish. 

 Perennial. 



Fiorin is quite popular in 

 England as a meadow grass, 

 and is known as 'Bent grass' 

 or White Bent. It belongs 

 to the same family as the 

 herds grass, and is very like 

 it. It is nourishing, and 

 makes a good grass for pas- 

 tures. In Tennessee it can- 

 not hold rank with many 

 others as a meadow grass, but 

 it is of sufficient value to de- 

 serve mention. 



WHITE diOVER.~( Trifoliwn repens.) 



Its stems are spreading, slender, creeping; leaves inversely heart- 

 shaped; flower heads small, white; pods four-seeded, roots perennial; 

 flowers from May to September. 



White Clover has been lauded to the skies by some, and 

 by others depreciated as a vile weed. It is beyond question 

 next to blue grass, one of our most valuable grazing plants. 

 Its analysis shows it to be ! equal to red clover in most re- 

 spects, and superior as a fat producing plant 



