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Scleranthus annuus, ete. The seed of Anthoxanthum Puelii is not easily distinguished 
from that of Anthoxwanthum odoratum : seen in mass, however, Puel’s vernal grass appears 
lighter in colour; the glumes are, in general, slightly shorter. Being an annual, it is not 
only worthless, but actually injurious, in permanent mixtures; since, in the first year, it 
occupies the ground, and suppresses other grasses by its fine, felted tufts. Further, when 
used as fodder it cannot sow itself, and by the second year has disappeared. In pasture for 
a single year, a small proportion might be used, but it is of no use for mowing. Another 
seed used as an adulterant is Wavy hair-grass (Aira fleauosa, L.) fig. 31; this is easily 
recognised. 
Seed and amounts to be sown. Good seed should have an average purity of 85 °/o and 
30 °%/o germinating power = 25.5 %/o of pure and germinating seed. When kept, the germin- 
ating power slowly decreases. 1 Ib. of pure seed contains on an average 924,000 grains. 
An acre of ground requires 30 lbs. of seed containing 26 °/o pure and germinating = 7.8 lbs. 
of pure and germinating seed. For fodder, sweet-scented vernal grass is never sown by 
itself, but always in mixture with other grasses. In temporary or permanent leys, it only 
plays the part of an aromatic grass. 
AI. Fiorin or Stoloniferous bent-grass. 
Agrostis stolonifera, L. or Agrostis alba, Schrad. 
. Part of a plant showing the stolons, 
. Panicle before flowering. 
Panicle during flowering, 
Spikelet in flower, side-view. 
. The same with the glumes removed. 
The lodicules and pistil. 
The spikelet, in fruit 7. e. false fruit. 
. The same with the glumes removed, side-view. 
The same, ventral surface. 
Caryopsis, dorsal surface. 
Caryopsis, ventral surface, shewing the groove. 
Diagram of the one-flowered spikelet. Observe the keeled glumes, 
. The ligule, long and acute, 
11. Transverse section of a leaf-blade (after Lund), shewing the acute and prominent ribs. 
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Botanical description. Fiorin sends out long stolons (fig. A) which may lie either above or 
beneath the ground. These root al the nodes and give off branches which are extrayaginal, as they 
must be in all completely stoloniferous grasses. The culm is 8—30 inches high, smooth, erect or as- 
cending, rarely bent and rooting at the base. The Jleaf-sheaths are smooth. The ligule (fig. 10) is long 
and acute (distinction from Agrostis vulgaris, Common bent, which has a short, obtuse ligule). The 
short. leaf-blade is convolute in bud, afterwards flat, linear, acute, and rough from above downwards ; the 
ribs are acute and prominent (fig. 44). The young iflorescence (fig. B) is a contracted panicle; its 
branches are arranged in tufts placed at equal but distant imteryals along the axis of inflorescence ; during 
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