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Aira pr<ecoxj (early hair grass) formerly common on hedge banks 



at JVeston-under-Lizard 



caryophyllea, (silver hair grass) in light sandy lands, Blymhill 

 Melica carulea, (purple melic) in Restlars meadow, ditto 



uniflora, (wood melic grass) in the Park, Weston-under- Lizard 

 Poa ayuatica, (reed meadow grass) sides of rivers, six feet high ; it fre- 

 quently occurs on the banks of the Canals near Newcastle 

 pratensis, (smooth stalked meadow grass) meadows 

 annua, (annual meadow grass) foot-paths and gravel walks 

 trivialis, (rough stalked meadow grass) meadows 

 nemoralis, (wood meadow grass) in woods, in the Hide Rough, near 



Breewood 



rigida, (hard meadow grass) walls and lime-stone, Tutbury Castle 

 Briza media, ("quaking grass,) meadows 

 Dactylis glomerata, (rough cock's foot grass) pastures 

 Cynosurus cristatus, (crested dog's tail grass) pastures 

 Festuca bronwides, (barren fescue grass) walls and dry pastures 



myurus, (capon's tail grass) dry sandy soil, near Blymhill 

 ovina, (sheep's fescue) heaths and high pastures 

 duriuscula, (hard fescue) in meadows and pastures 

 dumetorum, (pubescent fescue) in hedges, in Restlar's meadow, 



Blymhill 



tenuifolia, (fibthorpe) in Moreton-moors 

 elatior, (tall fescue) common 

 fluitans, fflote fescue) wet ditches, commons 



It is well known that old horses have been bogged in searching 

 for this grass. 



decumbens. (decumbent fescue) moist barren pastures 

 sylvatica, (wood fescue) hedges and thickets 

 Bromus mollis, (broine or oat grass) common in meadows 



sccalimts, (field broine grass) culm three feet high, in corn-fields 

 The seed is called long-tail by farmers, when in their corn samples 

 racemosus, (cluster broine grass) hedges, ffamstall-Ridivare 

 asper, (hairy stalked brome grass) hedges and thickets 

 sterilis, (barren brome grass) hedges 



arvensis, (corn broine grass) corn-fields, Hamstall-Ridware 

 giganteus, (tall brome grass) hedges in moist places 

 pinnatus, (spiked brome grass) dry situations, Hamstall-Ridware 

 Avena elatior, (tall oat grass) moist places 



nuda, (naked oat, pilcorn) said by Dr. PLOT to have been cultivated 

 fatua, (bearded oat, wild oat) a weed in corn-fields 

 flavescens, (yellow oat grass) meadow and pastures 

 Arundo Phragmites, (common reed) rivers aud lakes 



epigejos, (small reed) south side of Aqualate-mcre, Strcctivay side 



