"572 Indications of Fertility or Barrenness of Soils. 
Natural Grasses which are Indications of Barrenness by reason of their electing to 
grow on dry, sandy, elevated, or on wet, damp, peaty, boggy soils, and on which 
Soils the Natural Grasses which constitute the principal portion of our best Meadows 
and Pastures refuse to grow or remain permanent, even when sown on them. 
Botanical Names. 
English and Local Names. 
Obsibvatioks. 
Agrostis vulgaris 
Agrostis canina . 
Agrostis alba. 
Agroslis repens 
Agrostis stolonifera 
gustifolia. 
Agrostis palustris . 
Agroslis stricta . 
Aira aquatica . 
Aira ceespitosa 
Aira fiexuosa 
Aira cristata . 
Alopecurus agrestis 
Alopecurus geniculatus 
Briza media . 
Bromus sterilis 
Bromus mollis 
Fostuca ovina 
Festuca vivipara 
Festuca rubra 
Festuca dumetoru: 
Festuca myurus 
Festuca glabra 
Hordeum murinum 
Holcus lanatus 
Holcus mollis 
Hedsarum onobrychis 
Melica coerulca . 
Nardus stricta 
Plileum pratense minus 
Poa alpina . 
Poa compressa , 
Tlie tribe of mosses 
Common or fine beilt grass 
Brown bent grass . . 
WTiite-rooted bent grass , 
Creeping-rooted bent grass . 
Narrow-leaved creeping bent 
grass. 
Marsh bent grass . . 
Rock bent grass , , , 
Water hair grass. , • 
Tufted hair grass . . 
Wavy mountain hair grass . 
Crested liair grass • . 
Slender foxtail grass . . 
Floating foxtail grass . , 
Common quaking grass, dod- 
der- Dufidering Toms. 
Barren brome grass. Drank 
Soft brome grass , . 
Sheep's fescue grass . . 
Viviparous fescue grass 
Purple fescue . ■ 
Wood fescue , . 
Wall fescue . 
Smooth fescue . 
Wall barley • 
Woolly soft grass 
Creeping soft grass 
Wild sainfoin . , , 
Purple inelic grass . . 
Upright mat gra&i . 
Minor meadow rat's tail 
grass. 
Alpine meadow gross , , 
Fliit-stalked meadow grass . 
lire indications of barrenness. 
Dry heaths and pastures. Disliked by 
cattle. Limit of elevation, 2000 feet 
above the sea. 
Poor wet peaty soil in ))atches. 
Drv sandy meadowsand pastures. Limit 
o'f elevation, 2000 feet. 
Clayey soils; a troublesome weed. Its 
root is called couch. 
Sides of ditches, clayey soils. Limit of 
elevation, 2000 feet. 
Damp, shady, staguant places. Limit of 
elevation,' 2000 feet. 
Damp boggy soils. 
Grows only in wet muddy places, ditches. 
Limit of altitude, 50o' feet above the 
level of the sea. 
Very coarse, and seldom eaten by cattle. 
Grows in large tufts called rough-caps. 
Limit of elevation, 1500 feet. 
Heaths, and hilly pUiccs. Limit of ele- 
vation, 3500 feet. 
Dry pastures, and on rocks. Limit of 
elevation, 1500 feet. 
Black bent of the farmers. It is dilli- 
cult to get rid of, and is troublesome 
amongst wheat. 
Wet clayey soils, pools, ditches. Limit 
of elevation, 2000 feet. 
Poor soils; manure is said to injure it. 
Limit of altitude, 1500 feet above the 
sea. 
Dry sandy soil, under hedges, and in 
shady places. Limit of altitude, 600 
feet. 
Poor exhausted pastures. Limit of ele- 
vation, 1000 feet. 
Dry sandy soils. Favourite food of sheep 
on downs and wolds. Limit of eleva- 
tion, 4000 feet. 
Elevated lij^ht sandy soils. 
Sandy places. Frequent near the sea- 
shore. 
Cattle refuse it. Damp woods, soft 
shady places. Limit of altitude, 1000 
feet above the sea. 
On walls and dry barren places. 
Moist p.isturos- 
Dry light soils uniler walls. Limit of 
elevation, 500 feet. 
Shady banks, woods, moist pastures of 
a peaty nature. Limit of altitude, 
1500 feet. 
Impoverishing to the soil, and a trouble- 
some weed. Light sandy soil ; not 
eaten by stock. Limit of elevation, 
1500 feet. 
Dry, barren, chalky pastures. 
Damp heathy places, moors on or near 
jieat bogs. Limit of altitude, 1500 
feet. 
Dry moors and heaths. Limit of alti- 
tude, 4000 feet. 
Stiff tenacious land. 
Wales, and elevated places in Iho North 
uf England. Limit of altitude, 3000 
to 4000 feet. 
An early grass, but very short produce. 
Limit of altitude, ;W00 feet. 
