PHLEUM PRATEHSE. 



TIMOTHY, OE MEADOW OATSTATL. 



Eootstock perennial, somewhat creeping. Stems 

 1 to 3 feet, erect and smooth. Leaves short, flat, and 

 soft ; sheath smooth ; Hgule 

 phleumTratense. oblong. Panicle spike - like, 

 (Timothy, or Meadow c'atsiaii.) Cylindrical, elongate, and com- 

 ** pact. Spikelets one-flowered, 

 size, laterally compressed. Empty 

 glumes larger than flowering 

 glumes, equal, each with stLfif 

 hairs on the keel and a short 

 scabrid terminal awn. Palea 

 minute and pointed. Flower- 

 ing glumes much smaUer than 

 empty glumes, toothed and 

 awnless. Flowers end of June 

 to August. Grows in meadows 

 and pastures throughout Europe, North Africa, Siberia, 

 and Western Asia. 



With and without the chaff. 

 Magnified 15 diameters. 



ANALYSIS. 



Grass in 

 Natural State. 



Water 39'99 



*Soluble albuminoids ..... -35 



♦*Insoluble albuminoids 2-19 



Digestible fibre 12-74 



Woody fibre 31-97 



fSoluble mineral matter ..... 3-59 



■ff Insoluble mineral matter .... 1-26 



Chlorophyll, soluble carbo-hydrates, &o. . 8-01 



100-00 



* Containing Nitrogen -04 



** Containing Nitrogen -35 



Albuminoid Nitrogen -39 



Non-albuminoid Nitrogen -48 



Total Nitrogen -87 



t Containing Silica -27 



tt Containing Silica -69 



Dried at 

 212° Fahr. 



•43 



3-63 



21-23 



53-27 



5-98 



2-09 



13-37 



100-00 



•07 

 •58 



•65 



•80 



•45 

 1^16 



166 



