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In wet places in lowland meadows. 
These three spurges are exceedingly common 
where good cultivation prevails, being true 
agrarian weeds. 
In gardens and corn-fields frequent. 
In waste places very general. 
A weed in pastures, as its leaves are large, and 
herbage very acrid. 
A great pest in stiff calcareous soils, as it gives a 
most disagreeable flavour to the sample of corn. 
A disagreeable weed in pastures. 
I Very common to calcareous soils : highly poisonous 
I to cattle. 
[Common in moist sandy meadows ; the poor sandy 
) meadows in Cheshire are often full of them. 
|A good indicator of damp soil ; is soon removed 
( by draining. 
i Very abundant, especially in sterile clay ; are not 
) eaten by cattle. 
I In marshy places, or the damp part of a meadow ; 
I destroyed by draining. 
Too abundant everywhere. 
Common as a comb in calcareous soils. 
(Completely takes possession of the land in corn- 
{ fields on the oolite. 
A troublesome weed in sterile clays. 
( A creeping grass of the comb kind ; common to 
I uplands. 
A troublesome weed in stiff clay. 
An unprofitable grass in sterile calcai-eous clays. 
In all poor soils. 
A grass of the corn-field. 
Common to waste places of the field and garden. 
In all wet pastures. 
Common in fields and hedges in damp soil. 
( On calcareous heaths, occurs in tufts ; not usually 
\ eaten. 
J In hedges and by road-sides; also scattered in 
\ poor meadows. 
( Once a great pest in corn-fields, now comparatively 
I rare ; often introduced in foreign flax. 
j Common in sandy soil near Cheltenham and Wor- 
J cester, where it is as carefully picked as common 
[ couch. 
I Sedges of all kinds are weeds, as being innutri- 
< tious, and only growing on bad or wet lands ; 
( good cultivation soon destroys them. 
Common in sandy soils, increases by a rhizome. 
In sandy corn-fields and gardens ; common. 
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