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tony SS n ss iua i PK vm egia Gade! 
T Hm issue buen. a matter of ae pest to many befides 
. myfelf, refie&ing how long the Orchefton grafs has been known, 
and how frequent the opportunities have been for'a full and accu- 
rate examination of it by botanifts and agriculturifts, that its hif- - 
tory was fo very contradictory'and incomplete. It was not until I 
vifited the meadow, and paid confiderable attention to its produce, 
that I difcovered the caufe of this. The fact is, that the grafs was 
examined by the different perfons who have written upon the fub- 
je& of it at very different feafons of the year, and each taking it for 
granted that it was a peculiar fpecies, or at any rate a peculiar va- - 
riety of fome one fpecies, made his report on that one only which 
chanced to be in its pacction at us Burn of his infpe@ion. 
Hence one gentleman, v ho vifited the {pot about the latter end of 
July, pronounces the Ghehelion e to D He idu db uh ffokk 
ni fera*. Another, happening to obtain his fpecimens earlier in the 
year, fays, that Poa trivialis is the fpecies 4. Another obferver, | 
bearing ftedfaftly in mind that it has been defcribed as a peculiar 
=~ grafs, increafes the uncertainty, by declaring that, ** by all the en- 
: cdita he has made, he has not — that this Toa of me à 
* See Memoirs of the Bath sien vol. i. p. 93. - : des 
c Withering’s Bot. Arr. of Britifo Plants, vol, iis p. 144. em 
; hen grows 
