TRIANDR1A DIGYNIA. 99 
It grows in woods and moift hedges. Lut- 
 trell’s-town wood, county of Dublin —Grey- 
Abby wood, county of Down—Knappin wood, 
county of Antrim. 
This is a tall coarfe grafs, which produces 
leaves in quantity, but not very productive in 
ftems. Ina ftate of cultivation it appears 
well as a coarfe grafs, but requires a renewal 
every three years; for thofe {tems with their 
root-leaves, which flower, generally rot the 
following year, and caufe a great deficiency 
in the plant. It is alfo liable to be injured 
by cattle feeding on it, being fo eafily pulled 
out of ground by their nipping; for it gene- 
rally encreafes by offsets, whofe fibres take 
but a flight hold in the earth. I don’t con- 
fider it as a grafs worthy of cultivation, unlefs 
in fhady woods or fuch like places, where its 
fibres would take better hold, and where others 
more valuable would not thrive. Sheep, cows, 
goats and horfes eat it. P. June. July, 
{RISH. 
