136 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



Fejluca ovina. A good grafs on (beep paftures, but 

 not an object of cultivation. 



Feftuca duriufcula. Mr. Sole, in the Bath Tranfao 

 tions, mentions this as a mofl excellent grafs, and well 

 worth cultivation. 



Feftuca pratenfis.-r- Meadow fefcue grafs ; one of our 

 beft graJTes both for pafture and hay. 



Feftuca elatior, A flrong grafs, and might be well 

 worth cultivating in moift clay foils. 



Fejluca loliacea, Nearly allied to feftuca pratenfis, a 

 good grafs, requiring a moift foil. 



Feftuca jluitansy float fefcue* An excellent grafs; 

 but, to cultivate it, marfhy ground would alone bring 

 it to perfection. A field of mine liable to be flooded 

 by every heavy rain, and from which, by repeated 

 cuttings, the bufhes which formerly covered it are 

 pearly extirpated, is now covered with this grafs, 

 which affords the fineft pafture. Mr. Templeton. 

 This grafs grows with wonderful vigour in bogs, 

 that are cut over, and in the drains^ that flow from 



them. The feeds of this grafs are very nutritive, as 



\ 

 may be known by their fattening ducks, that are within 



reach of thofe places where they grow ; they nvift like- 

 wife be very palatable to them, as, when they once 

 find them out, there is the greatefl difficulty in getting 

 them to remain at home.' Horfes and cows are fo 

 fond of this grafs, they often rifle their lives in queft 

 of it. J. D. 



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