B R I Z A MEDIA. (Lin.) 
MIDDLE QUAKING GRASS. COW-QUAKES and LADIES HAIR. (Hu... and With.) 
COYVQUAKES. QUAKING GRASS. (Lightfoot.) 
WAGWANTON. TREMBLING GRASS. (Vulgo.) 
This Grafs produces a mod elegant and curious panicle; which there is no danger of but The 
other Grafs. The heart-fhapcd fpicul*, or Ajfcfer. which contain .he flower,. eonfi*• b “” he 
footftalks or fupporters of them are fo very llender, and at the fame time (o elaftie, that the cal br'Zth ot 
wind keeps them continually in a tremulous motion: Hence its names of Quaking Grals, &c. It dowers 
beginning of June. 
Mr. Ray in his Synopfis obferves, that the old proverb “ May, comejhe early, comejhe late, mikes the Cow 
“ quake" has by Come been interpreted of this Grals: namely, that the month of May, whether a 
or late (does not make the Cow to (h udder or quake, but) produces the Grafs called Cow-qmkes. As this Gra 
at prefent fcarcely ever blofloms before June, are we to infer that our fpring lealon is now later than it was a 
century back ? 
Dr. Withering remarks that if a feed of this Grafs be carefully differed in a microfcope with a fine lancet, 
the young plant will be found with its root and leaves pretty perfectly formed. It will be found to grow chietiy 
in wet fprintiy ground. It does not drop its feed when ripe fo ealily as many of the grades. 
Its anthers are generally purple, yet are they fometimes whitilh. 
DACTYLIS GLOMERATA. (Lin.) 
ROUGH COCK’s-FOOT GRASS. (Hudson, Withering, and Lichtfoot.) 
ORCHARD GRASS. 
The general appearance of this plant does not prepoflefs the Farmer much in its favour. It is very perceptibly 
rough in all its parts. Yet it may not be the lei's valuable on this account. 
The feeds of a fpecies of Dadylis were introduced into this country about twenty years ago as a new Grafs from 
America, and highly extolled under the name of Orchard Grafs. 
This Grafs lends up but few dowering (talks in proportion to its produce of leaves. 
Mr. Lightfoot has the following remark fubjoined to his defeription of this Grafs. “ It is a very trouble- 
** fome creeping Grafs in a garden and difficult to be deltroyed. 't he Gardeners call this and feveral other creeping 
** kinds Coueh-Grafs.” This leems to have been a flip of the pen. The roots of the rough Cocksfoot are 
perfectly fibrous, and never have been obferved to creep by the writer of this, who has frequently lown it in his 
Garden. The Foa pratenfis indeed deferves the name of Couch, or Quich, equally with the Triticum repens or 
Dogs Grafs. Which appellation is only a corruption of Sjutck the antient term for living. The more you cut the 
roots of thele Grades the farter they propagate themfelvesA 
The Rough Cock’s-foot blofloms the fecond week in June, and prevails univerially. 
The feeds do not quit the panicle when ripe fo foem as thofe of many others of the Grades. 
The Tips of the Florets are fometimes flefh-coloured, at other times purplilh, and not unfrequently of a 
wbitifh-yellow. 
AVENA ELATIOR. (Lin.) 
TALL OAT GRASS, (Hudson and Withering.) 
TALL OAT GRASS. Anglis. Swines ar-nuts, or earth-nuts. Scotis. (Lightfoot.) 
The perennial GrafTes in general do not produce flowering (talks the firft feafon they are Town. From an 
expenmen w ic was leg; ere ‘ n the year 1780, this and the Cats-tail Grafs were found to be exceptions. 
Some teed of the 1 .all Oat, and of the Cats-tail, fown the 19th of April, produced flowering (talks, which were 
f0l,0W,n g’ Perfected theirfeeds by the 8th of September: when many other 
leaf in The Tall (Y t C a . l J nc and in the fame lituation, fhewed no appearance of flowering (talks that 
f 1 e T ° at P rcva,ls aImoft every where; particularly in dry ground, and near the boundaries of fields. 
It is one of the tailed of the paflure Grades ; and is therefore very confpicuous. 
It blofloms near the fame time as the Rough Cock's Foot. 
The feed mud becoIleiRed at the critical time of its ripening, or it will foon drop to the ground. 
Its Tips are purple. 
• See MartviF* Later on Uie GraU'ci 
