"NATURAL MEADOWS AND PASTURES. 13$ 
the grass a staple, which affords a nutriment to cattle, 
superior to what is given by the same herbage in 
poorer countries. 
As this land is adapted either to mowing or grazing, 
any proportion of it may, with a little management, 
be mown at pleasure, and more hay is produced in 
Worcestershire than it consumes ; the surplus finds 
a ready market for horses employed on the canals, or 
in the mines of Staffordshire. 
Mr. Darke, of Bredon, says, our old pastures abound 
with honey-suckle (trifolium repens), yellow craisey 
(ranunculus repens), crested dog’s-tail (cynosurus cris- 
tatusj, ray-grass, &c. 
Mr. Marshall, who examined the grass-land of the 
Vales of Severn and Avon, with attention ; at the proper 
season, gives the following as the principal pasture 
herbage:—Ray-grass (lolium perenne), white clover 
(trifolium repens}, trailing trefoil (trifolium procum- 
bens), barley-grass (hordeum pratense), Timothy-grass 
(phleum pratense), crested dog’s-tail (cynosurus cris- 
tatus), sedge-grasses (carex’s), vernal grass (anthox- 
antlium odoratum), meadow fox-tail (alepocurus pra- 
tensis), flote grass (festuca fluitans), tall fescue (festuca 
elatior), creeping bent grass (agrostis alba), fine bent 
(agrostis capillaris), marsh fox-tail (alopecurus genicu- 
latus), meadow soft grass (holcus lanatus), brome grass 
(bromus mollis), meadow-grasses (poa’s), meadow- 
burnet(sanguisorba officinalis), meadow-vetchling (la- 
thyrus-pratensis), meadow-clover (trifolium pratense), 
bird’s-foot trefoil (lotus corniculatus), creeping crow¬ 
foot (ranunculus rcpens), orchard-grass (dactylus glo- 
meratus), quake grass (briza media), besides some other 
coarser grasses, neutral plants, meadow-flowers, and 
yveeds.. 
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