384 OBSERVATIONS ON GRASSES; 
think not, and that the beft pafture for ihee$ 
is alfo the beft for deer. However this wants 
trial. I remarked on Malvern hill fomething 
particular in relation to this grafs. A walk that 
was made there for the convenience of the water 
drinkers, in lefs than a year was covered in 
many places with it, tho 5 i could not find one 
Angle plant of it befides in any part of the hill. 
This was no doubt, owing to the frequent 
treading, which above all things makes this 
grafs fiorifli, and therefore it is evident that 
rolling muft be very ferviceable to it. 
ADDITION. It has been objected that this 
grafs is not free from bents , by which word is meant 
the flowering ftems . I anfwer that this is moft 
certainly true, and that there is no grafs without 
them . But the flowers and ftems do not grow fo 
foon brown as thofe of other grajfes , and being 
much jhorter they do not cover the radical leaves fa 
much , and therefore this grafs affords a more agree- 
able turf without mowing than any other whatever 
that i know of 
Sheeps FESCUE. Tab. 8. 
This is the grafs fo much efteemed in Swe- 
den for Iheep. 
Gmelin, Flor. Sibir. fays that the Tartars 
choofe to fix during the fummer in thofe places 
where there is the greateft plenty of this grafs ; 
becaufe 
