134 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



BromuS) of all kinds. The bromus mollis is an early 

 and productive grafs, efpecially for the firft year j the 

 car abounds with mealy fubftance, which makes it very 

 <xcellent food for horfes. The officers of the different 

 Englifh regiments of dragoons preferred the hay made 

 of this grafs to any other, by ten (hillings per ton. 



Pkalaris arundinacea ; reed. In the meadows along 

 the fides of the rivers it is very productive, both in ftem 

 and in leaves ; when cut early it feems to be palatable 

 to cattle. The beautiful ftriped grafs is of this fpecies. 

 Alopecurus gentculatus I have obferved in moifl 

 places, but never faw a fufficient quantity together to 

 form an idea how it would anfwer for cultivation ; as 

 a plant it is beautiful. 



Poa annua. Sweet and fine ; more produftive as 

 grafs than as hay ; it feeds feveral times in one year. 



Agroftis alba. White bent grafs ; abounds in all our 

 meadows. It feems a moft valuable plant ; fine in the 

 flem, with numerous leaves, and a confiderable quan- 

 tity of feed, which, though fmall, muft be very nutri- 

 tious. 



Aira flexnofa I found on Slieve Croob mountain, 

 rearing its flender flalk and elegant head above the 

 heath. 



Air a cefpitofa. 



Fejluca Bromides, or Myurus. On thin and gravelly 

 foils it has a fine leaf and ftem ; in the pafture where I 

 gathered it, it was cropped fo clofe I never could get a 



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