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5- AcrosTis Pumira. 
Dwarf-Bent. 
Very fimilar to the foregoing, if not a variety of 
the fame. It grows abundantly on the higher parts 
of Mendip. 
6. Acrostis STOLONIFERA. 
Creeping-Bent. 
This is the farmer’s couch, and a great peft to corn- 
fields. And although all forts of cattle eat it, it is 
not a nutritious grafs; therefore totally unworthy 
cultivation. 
7. AcGRosTIs PALUSTRIS. 
Mar/h-Bent. 
This grafs claims an equal title to be the Mading- 
ton long grafs, as either the Poa Paluftris, or Feftuca 
Fluitans ; for I find it growing in equal proportion 
on the fame mead with either of the above. It is a 
good grafs for wet meadows and paftures, where 
better would not thrive. We have it in Newton- 
mead abundantly.—Refer to No. 61, 96, and 97. 
8. AGRosTIsS ALBA. 
White-Bent. 
This is a foft wafhy grafs, affording but little nou- 
rifhment. It is common in wet, fandy places; eC» Be 
Pits on Hounflow-Heath, and in fome parts of 
Glaftonbury Moor. | 
9. AGRosTIs 
