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unequal, oval, ribbed, somewhat downy glumes. Siam, and styles ca<< 
pillary. Seed cylindrical, minute loose. Sm. E.) 
Rough Cat’s-tail Grass. P.asperum. Jacq. Villars. Schrad. Sm. Eng. 
FI. P. paniculatum. Huds. With. Sm. FI. Brit. Phalaris aspera. 
Retz. Willd. A very rare plant, hitherto involved in much obscurity. 
Meadows below King’s Weston, near Bristol. Newmarket Heath. 
Bournbridge, Cambridgeshire. Mr. Crowe. (Sunderland Ballast Hills. 
Mr. Weighed. On the wall of Rose Lane, Oxford. Sibthorpe. Bad¬ 
minton Park, Gloucestershire, near the lodge. Herb. Banks. E.) 
A. Aug. 
P. prate n^se. Spike cylindrical, very long: calyx abrupt, fringed at 
the back, and longer than its awns. 
E. Bot. 1076. 
(Stem two to four inches high, knotty; in the varieties partly decumbent. 
Leaves flat, roughish, with long, close, striated sheaths; and a small 
blunt stipula. Cluster erect, from two to six inches long. Awns straight, 
short, rough. Sm. E.) 
Var. 1. Major . Larger. 
Gram. Pasc. —( Hort. Gram. E.)— Schreb. 14. 1. 2— C. B.Pr. 10. Th. 49. 1 
— H. Ox. viii. 4. row 3. 1 and 2— J. B. ii. 472. 2— Park. 1170. 1— Spike, 
8$c. Leers 3. 1— Mus. Rust. v. 1. 1— Mont. 52. 
Root nearly bulbous. Straw upright. Spike from four to seven inches long. 
Common Timothy Grass. Herd Grass, in America. Ray Syn. 398. 1. 
(Welsh: Rhon-wellt y gath cyffredin. E.) Pastures common. P. July.* 
Var. 2. Minor. Smaller. 
(Hort. Gram. E.)— Schreb. 14. 3. 4 and 5 — FI. Ban. 380— Barr. 53 — Pet. 
11. Gram. Ital. 4. 1— H. Ox. viii. 4. row 3. 3— Ger. 10. 2— C. B. Th. 52 —- 
Park. 1170. 3— J. B. ii. 472.3— Bod. 562 — Lob. Obs. 10. 1— Ger. Em. 
12 , uppermost jig. — Park. 1170. 2— Spike, 6$c. Leers 3. 2. 
Smaller than Var. 1 in all its parts. Root more like a bulb, and sheathed 
with brown skin. Straw ascending. Spike from three fourths of an inch 
to two inches long. Leers tells us that being transplanted into rich soil 
it became the year following the first variety. Florets sometimes with 
four styles. Ray Syn. 398. 2. Barren pastures and road sides, common. 
P. July—August.t 
Var. 3. Bulbous. 
Bar. 22. 1— Pet. ii. Gram. Ital. 4. 2— H. Ox. viii. row 2. 1— Barr. 22. 2. 
* Cows, horses, and goats eat it. Swine refuse it.—Vid. account of it in Mus.Rust—• 
Dr. Pulteney says, that notwithstanding the character which this grass acquired from Le 
Rocque’s recommendation, sheep dislike it; neither are cows or horses fond of it. But 
Leers asserts, it affords an excellent pasture for horses.—A hard coarse grass, of little 
value for cattle. Mr. Swayne. (This grass is very deficient in the produce of latter- 
math, and is slow in growth after being cropped ; defects not compensated by the 
nutritiveness of the earlier crop. Hort. Gram. Dr. Walker states, it acquired its name 
from Timothy Hanson, a cultivator of it in North America, where it w as held in some 
estimation. E.) 
■f (Later in the spring produce and less nutritious than Var. maj, to which it is inferior 
in a proportion of 8 to 25. Hort. Gram. E.) 
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