BRI'ZA MAX IMA. 
LARGE QUAKING-GRASS. 
Class. Order. 
TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
GRAMINE£. 
Native of 
Heiglit. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
S. Europe. 
18 inches. 
June, Aug. 
Annual. 
in 1633. 
No. 382. 
This generic name is from the Greek brizo, to 
nod. Maxima, from the Latin, signifying greatest. 
The chief gratification which is offered by the 
Briza maxima, is not by display in the garden. It is 
not, however, unacceptable. It tenders its services 
through the dreariness of winter, to yield us conso- 
lation when its showy companions have sunk into ob- 
livion. It should be gathered as soon as full-grown, 
and set up loosely in a flower stand to dry. It will 
then retain its elegance and its action, and form a 
highly desirable accompaniment to the gnaphalium, 
xeranthemum, elichrysum, and other dry flowers, in 
constituting an everlasting or winter nosegay. 
Ingenious ladies who love to surpass their friends, 
in beautiful floral productions,may excite surpriseby 
exhibiting extraordinary quaking-grass. Let them 
take several spikelets of it, and draw out one-third 
of their length, from their small ends ; the remainder 
of each may be readily united to form gigantic spe- 
cimens; and the trick may bid defiance to detection. 
The seed of this annual should be sown as soon as 
ripe, in a rich warm border. Spring-sown plants 
will be less luxuriant. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 1, 159. 
