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fTolcus lanatus. Woolly Soft-grass. 
“Yorkshire Fog.” A very common grass on every kind of soil ; 
but so coarse that cattle shun it as arule. When made into hay, 
it is extremely light and spongy to the touch. When dried in the 
press, too, it is limp and flimsy., A decidedly inferior grass. 
fTolcus mollis. Creeping Soft-grass. 
Not unlike the preceding, but less abundant, and generally seen 
about the edges of woods and hedgerows. Distinguished from the 
foregoing by its more open and less woolly flower spikes, and by 
its powerfully creeping root. Only grown to perfection in light, 
barren, sandy soils. Superior in most respects to“ Vorkshire 
Fog,” but objectionable on account of its “twitchy” roots, although 
these last are held to contain much nutritive matter. 
Triodia decumbens. Decumbent Heath-grass. 
This grass is chiefly confined to upland undrained meadows and 
pastures, in some of which it is tolerably abundant, being intermixed 
with sedges and other moisture-loving vegetation. The Woburn 
Abbey experiments upon this grass were unfavourable to it. It is 
pronounced “but little susceptible of improvement by being trans- 
planted to a richer soil.” It is a late grass, and deficient in 
fog-producing qualities. 
Keleria cristata. Crested Hair-grass. 
A slender type of grass, found only on the shore from Cardur- 
nock to St. Bees and Coulderton, sparingly. 
Molinia cerulea. Purple Melic-grass. 
Found in turfy and sandy bogs. For pasture or hay compara- 
tively worthless. In some parts of the kingdom the peasantry 
make neat besoms of the straw, which, as well as the roots, is 
strong and wiry. Hangingshaw moss, near New Cooper. 
Melica nutans. Mountain Melic-grass. 
A rare grass, found only in mountainous regions. In Gowbarrow 
