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(3) Our indigenous herbage plants offer a promising field for study. 

 Nor should modern investigators confine their attention to grasses and 

 clovers only, with the exception of but few miscellaneous herbs. We 

 have been struck in the course of our work by the extent to which such 

 plants as Juncus squarrosus, J. Gerardi, J . articulatus, Bellis peretmis, 

 and Statice maritima, are relished by stock. 



It is, however, most desirable to study the locally successful varieties 

 of Festuca ovina, Festuca rubra (with the other fine leaved fescues), 

 Poa trivialis, Poa jpratensis, Lolium perenne, and Cynosurus cristatus, 

 with a view to estimating their relationship to the commercial counter- 

 parts and if necessary with a view to establishing local supplies of the 

 indigenous seed. To do, in short, for these species what has been so 

 successfully done in the case of wild white clover as the result of the 

 investigations of Gilchrist (lO) and others. 



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