Quaking Grass
Briza, a genus of grasses. The species are few and mostly European. They are all very beautiful. B. maxima, a native of the S. of Europe, is often planted in flower gardens. B B. media, the only species common in Great Britain, growing in almost all kinds of poor soil, from the seacoast to an elevation of 1,500 feet, is of some value as a pasture grass, being very nutritious, although the quantity of herbage is scanty. The value of many poor pastures very much depends on it.