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didder-grass, diddery-docks, dithering-grass, dodder, dodder-grass, 

 doddering-dickies, doddering dillies, doddering grass, doddering 

 jockies, dodderin-nancy, doddle-grass, dothering dicks, dothering- 

 toms, earth-quakes, whacker gerse, fairy grass, pearl grass, quaker 

 grass, rattle grass, shaking grass, shiver grass, shivering grass, 

 swaggering grass, totter grass, tottering grass, trembling grass, 

 waggering grass, hay shakers, jockey grass, lady's hair, maiden-hair, 

 mountain flax, quack-ducks, quakers, shake ladies, shakers, shiver- 

 Ing jimmy, sillar shakle, silver ginglers, silver shakers, suisilk, 

 tassels, trembling jockies, thremlin-jockies, wag wanton, wag- 

 wants, wiggle-waggles, wig-wag-wanton, wiggle-waggle-wantons. 



Dactylis L. Orchard Grass. 



glomerata L. Common in meadows. 



Poa L. Spear Grass. Meadow Grass. 

 annua L. Low Spear Grass. 



In cultivated and in waste places, common. 



The following interesting reference to this grass is given in Hooker's 

 "Himalayan Journals," Chapter IX, the account of his exploration 

 of the Wallanchon Pass at an elevation of 12,000 feet: 



"Along the narrow path I found the two commonest of all British 

 weeds, a grass (Poa annua) and the shepherd's purse! They had 

 evidently been imported by men and yaks, and as they do not occur 

 in India, I could not but regard these little wanderers from the north 

 with the deepest interest. 



" Such incidents as these give rise to trains of reflection in the mind 

 of the naturalist-traveler; and the farther he may be from home and 

 friends, the more wild and desolate the country he is exploring, the 

 greater the difficulties and dangers under which he encounters these 

 subjects of his earliest studies in science; so much keener is the 

 delight with which he recognizes them, and the more lasting is the 

 ' impression which they leave. At this moment these common weeds 

 more vividly recall to me that wild scene than does my journal, and 

 remind me how I went on my way, taxing my memory for all it ever 



