ovina. 
68 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
F. Panicle compaét, pointing one way, awned: 
ftems 4-cornered, almoft naked; leaves briftle- 
fhaped. 
Common on dry hills and mountains. ‘As a 
meadow grafs, it is of no confequence to the 
farmer; for unlefs in fandy clayey foils it makes 
but little progrefs, and even in fuch is not worthy 
of cultivation for meadow. Neither is it valuable 
to the grazier on any part of his grounds, unlefs 
dry hills and fides of mountains; and in fuch 
places this grafs is valuable as to pafture, it being 
the grafs preferred by fheep above all others. « In. 
a plot allotted to this grafs in the Botanic gar- 
dens, in the farmer’s divifion, it appears very 
luxuriant; and by-a‘comparifon here, and. in its’ 
wild fituation, they would appear not the fame.. 
The plot has a northern afpeét, and is’a clayey: 
gravelly foil. Although a fmall grafs, it-is fuccu- 
lent, and continues in verduré during winter and 
{pring, affording nourifhment at a feafon of the. 
year when others are froft-bitten and: disfigured: 
by inclemency of weather, holding itfelf thus 
until the recovery of others to fucceed it. There : 
is a {mall ifland off Ballycaftle, in the county of 
Antrim, which abounds with this grafs; and I 
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