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species of Xerotes (N.O. Juncacece) with harsh cutting or wiry 

 foliage, eaten down by stock, to show the inhospitable kind of 

 fodder to which, under stress of circumstances, the mountain 

 cattle become habituated, and upon which they manage to main- 

 tain themselves. Cattle brought from the lowlands do not, 

 however, all at once or readily take kindly to such apparently 

 unpromising forage plants. 



