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extremes appear widely different, they are completely connected by 
intermediate forms. Anthers usually yellowish-white in var. fi. 
Common Timothy- (rra.ss. 
French, Fleole des pre><. German, Tlmnthee-Gn,.^. 
It is stated that this grass was first recommended for acricnltnral use about twenty 
rears ago under the name of Timothy grass, an appellaticm it nn-oived from Timothy 
America. ^ It is a hard coarse grass, not much liked by horses, goats, cows, or sheep, 
It is used as a shifting grass crop in Canada, where on the sliorcs of the lakes we 
It is not used as a self-grass in England, as it is' too long in coming to perfection ; 
but it is the chief source of the rough but nutritions winter fodder in some of the 
States, where natural meadow does not yield the herbage that it does at home. 
Timothy grass has been highly recommended for the purfiose of hay, as the stems 
during the time the seeds are ripe contain more nutritive matter than that of 
most other grasses, but the deficiency in the produce of the after-math and the slow- 
ness of its growth after being cut are defects which are not compensated by the 
superior quantity of nutritive matter in the stems of tife .-eed crop. .Mr. Sinclair 
therefore considers it unfit for cultivation by itself as a husbandry grass, but of great 
husbandry, where it should always form a part of the crop.^ It grows best in most 
tenacious soils, and is common throughout the whole of Britain. 
SPECIES IIL— P H L E U M B O E H M E R I. Sch md. 
Plate MDCCVIII. 
Rekh. Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CLXXX. Fig. 487. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. I:i57. 
P. phaleroides, Kol. Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 81. 
P. Iteve, " J/. Bieh." Bwmort. Agrost. Belg. p. 181. 
Phalaris phleoides, Una. Sir,. Eng. Bot. eil. i. p. Ary.). 
Chilochloa Bohmeri, Pal de BonaC E,,irh. I.e. p. <:.4. 
Perennial. Rootstock .-^hort, ca\spitose, .scarcely creeji)ing, but with 
s-caly stolons. Stems erect from a slightly curved or indistinctly 
geniculate slender base, sim[)le. Leaves flat, ^\^th numerous slightly 
elevated scabrous ribs, of which .1 to 7 are stronger than the others, 
dull green, glaucous; sheaths rough, the uppermost one scarcelv in- 
fhited; ligule short, truncate. Panicle cylindrical or fusiform-cylin- 
drical, attenuated at the base and slightly so at the apex, rather dense. 
S pikelets ascending, oblong-elliptical, with the sides curved throughout, 
i himes abruptly acimiinated into an erect scabrous awn less than 
-fourth the length of the glumes; keel scabrous, ciliated with 
; -rt di.staut hair>. Lower pale ;';-ribbcd. Rudimentary floret stalk- 
