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broad, soft, pale-green leaves, and large panicles of 

 whitish or pale purple flowers. Cattle dislike it, and 

 it is often left quite undisturbed in a pasture, forming 

 coarse tussocks, or even covering large spaces to the 

 exclusion of more profitable species. 



Of course the Yorkshire Fosr cannot be tolerated in 



FIG. 46. Creeping root-stock of Yorkshire Fog. (Holcus mollis,) 



a tennis-lawn, and I set to work to extirpate it. This 

 I did with great labour because of the runners, white, 

 horizontal stems, spreading through the earth an inch 

 or two beneath the surface. The runners branch, 

 root themselves at frequent intervals, and continually 

 send up bunches of leaves. Bits of the runners are 



