DACTYLIS GLOMERATA. 



ROUGH OOOKSFOOT. 



Seisd op 



dactylis glomerata. 



(^Rough Cockboat.) 



Boots fibrous, rootstock perennial. Stems 2 to 

 feet, erect, stout, and smooth. Leaves broad, 

 keeled, and rough ; sheath sca- 

 brid; ligule long. Panicle se- 

 cund, spreading below, close 

 and pointed above. Spikelets 

 I three- to five-flowered, later- 

 * ally compressed, and closely 

 ^"St clustered at the end of the 

 branches. Empty glumes 

 smaller than flowering glumes, 

 unequal, keeled, and hairy on 

 upper part of the keel, pointed 

 at summit, ^lowering glumes 

 with hairy keel, pointed and 

 ending in a short awn. Palea 

 bifid at summit, and fringed at 

 base. Flowers June and July. 

 Grows in pastures, woods, or- 

 chards, and waste places throughout Europe, North 

 Africa, North India, and Siberia. 



Front and sirle views magnified 

 8 diameters. 



ANALYSIS. 



Grass in 

 Natural State. 



Water 60-74 



♦Soluble albuminoids -25 



**Insoluble albuminoids 1-50 



Digestible fibre 11-30 



Woody fibre 16-24 



f Soluble mineral matter 2-04 



fflnsoluble mineral matter .... -91 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &c. . 7-02 



100-00 



* Containing Nitrogen ... ... -04 



** Containing Nitrogen '24 



Albuminoid Nitrogen -28 



INon-albuminoid Nitrogen -IS 



Total Nitrogen -46 



t Containing Silica .35 



tt Containing Silica .5I 



Dried at 

 212° Fahr. 



•62 



3-81 



28-78 



41-36 



5-19 



2-32 



17-92 



100-00 



•10 



•61 



-71 



-46 

 1-17 



•89 

 1^29 



150 



