Popular field botany; containing a familiar and technical description of the plants most common to the various localities of the British Isles, adapted to the study of either the artificial or natural systems . ed in the 2ndLinnsean class; but as there are other Grasses which are alikedefective, Bromus diandrus for instance, and they have bothequally the appearance of Grasses, I shall arrange this sweetscented plant with those it so nearly resembles in otherparticulars. In the Natural System it is of course placedwdth other Grasses. It is very abundant in woods andpastures, and yields an agree
Popular field botany; containing a familiar and technical description of the plants most common to the various localities of the British Isles, adapted to the study of either the artificial or natural systems . ed in the 2ndLinnsean class; but as there are other Grasses which are alikedefective, Bromus diandrus for instance, and they have bothequally the appearance of Grasses, I shall arrange this sweetscented plant with those it so nearly resembles in otherparticulars. In the Natural System it is of course placedwdth other Grasses. It is very abundant in woods andpastures, and yields an agreeable smell in the act of drying,so that it gives the well-known scent to new-made hay. Itis about a foot high, leaves short. The panicle, or bunch offlowers, is an oblong spike, and when old is yellow. Triandria. ^. ALOPECUEUS. (Fox-TAiL Grass.) Generic Character. Calyx two-leaved, valves nearly of one valve, with an awn rising from the base. Alopecurus pratensis. (Plate YII. Pig. 26.) MeadowFox-tail Grass. This is a common Grass in meadows andpastures, and is valuable food for cattle. It has a longerect panicle or culm of flowers, as it is called, of a greenish. AitlioxarithiiTn odoratiiin .Jinn^:
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