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1 I am very grateful to E. J. T. Collins, Gavin Bowie, and Robert Rhoades, together with two
anonymous referees, for their valuable comments and suggestions, and to Ken Smith for the
illustrations.
2 The true grasses include rye grass (Lolium perenne), cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata), timothy
(Phleum pratense), meadow grasses (Poa spp.), meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis), meadow fes-
cue (Festuca pratensis); the artificial grasses were sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia), trefoil (Medicago
lupilina), white clover (Trifolium repens), red clover (T. repens), cow grass (T. alpestre), rib grass
(Plantago lanceolata) and burnet (Poterium polygonum).
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