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THE GBASS FAMILT. 



I. — Growing in meadows and pastures, and furnishing the staple of every 

 hay-field. (Those marked * are rather local.) 



3. Sweet-scented Vernal-grass 

 7, Meadow Fox-tail. 

 2l.*Yello\N'ish Oat-grass. 



22. SHver Oat- grass. 



23. Common Soft-grass. 

 29. Common Eay-grass. 



35. Common Meadow Brome- 

 grass. 



37. Hard Fescue. 



38. Meadow Fescue. 



40. Eough Cock's-foot. 



41. Crested Dog's-tail. 

 43.* Quaking-grass. 



47. Smooth Meadow-grass. 



48. Rough Meadow-grass. 



II. — Growing in woods, thickets, and hedges, never in the open fields. 



33. Great Hairy Brome-grass. 



1. Wood MUlet-grass. 

 24. Sylvan Soft-grass. 



27. Couch-grass. 



28. Dogs' Wheat-grass. 

 31. Common False Brome. 



34. Hedge Brome-grass. 

 3C. Great Woodland Brome- 

 grass. 

 52. Wood Melic. 



III. — Growing in or near ditches, ponds, or other wet places, never in the 

 open fields. 



45. Floating Sweet-grass. 

 50. Water Bitten-grass. 



5. Eibhon-grass. 

 9. Common Marsh Fox-tail. 

 44. Great Brown-reed. 



54. Common Reed. 



lY. — Weeds in cornfields and other cultivated land, by waysides, (fee, never 

 among hay. 



20.*Wild Oat. i 30.*Damel. 



27. Couch-grass. I 40. Annual Gai'den-grass. 



V. — Growing about the borders of fields, occasionally among the liay-grassea, 

 frequently among corn, and in uncultivated farm-land. 



6. Meadow Cat's-tail. 

 11. Common Bent-grass. 



12. White Bent-grass. 

 10. Tufted Hair-grass. 



VI. — Growing chiefly or exclusively on the moors. 



17. Heath Hair-grass. 

 25. Wire-grass. 



51. Purple Moor-grass. 



In addition to the three aliens mentioned above (2, 4, and 42), the four follow- 

 ing seem disposed to settle near Manchester. They occur on some refuse-heaps 

 near a paper-mill at Bury : — 



Digitaria sanrjninalis, 

 Panicum cainllare, 



Setaria glauca, 

 Elcusine Indica. 



The seeds have, no doubt, been brought from abroad with some materials used 

 in the manufacture, and having found » place to their liking, have vegetated. 

 (See Phytologist, N. S., No. 41.) 



