THE GKASS FAMILY, 431 



6. Meadow Cat's-tail — {PhUum pratinse.) 



Everywhere on the borders of fields, but seldom among the hay, not 



flowering till the hay-making is pretty well over, and most luxuriantly 



in autumn. 



E. B. XV. 1076 ; Baxter, i. 68. 



Called " Eat's-tail " about Lymm. 



7. Meadow Fox-tail — {^Alopeciirus pratmsis.) 

 Meadows and pastures, everywhere, one of the earliest and most 

 conspicuous grasses of the hay-field. Fl. May, June. 



Curtis ii. 297 ; E. B. xi. 759 ; Baxter, i. 45. 



8. CoKNEiELD Fox-tail — {Alopecicrus agrestis.) 

 As a weed among corn, Italian rye-grass, and other farm-crops, 

 occasionally. Fl. June, July. Annual. 



Curtis, i. 79 (as Alopecurus myosuroides) ; E. B. xii. 848. 



9, Common Marsh Fox-tail — {Alopeciirus geniculdtus.) 

 Everywhere by the sides of ponds, and in low, wet, marshy places, 

 rising only a few inches above the surface of the ground. Fl. June, 



July. 



Curtis, ii. 298 ; E. B. xviii. 1250. 



10. Tawny Marsh Fox-tail — {Alopeciirus fulvus.) 

 In similar situations, but not so common. Plentiful on the borders 

 of Mere Mere. Fl. June, July, 



E. B, xxi. 1467. 

 Probably only a variety of the preceding. 



11. Common Bent-grass — {Agrostis vulgaris.) 



Everywhere in meadows and pastures, and on dry banks, a beautiful 



ornament in particular to the borders of corn-fields at harvest time, 



Fl. June — August. 



E. B. xxiv. 1671. 



12. "White Bent-grass — {Agrostis alba.) 

 In similar situations, but where the ground is somewhat moist. 

 Often very fine in the trenches cut for draining fields. Fl. Summer, 

 E. B. xvii. 1189 ; Baxter, vi. 492. 

 A variety with long, prostrate, and creeping stems, formerly called Agrostis 

 itolonifera, (E. B. xxii. 1532.) grows in swampy places in Mere Clough, &q. 



