C 80 ] 



able to difcover. But this I am allured of, that if 

 it be not an extraordinary circumfiance, it will for 

 ever prevent the railing of this grafs by feed from 

 becoming a general operation in agriculture. 



i 

 I beg leave to fubjoin a few remarks on each of 

 the grafles I have collected, in the order they 

 were found to ripen, with the view that they may 

 probably be of fome little ufe to the perfon who 

 is to direct: the cultivation of them. 



* lft. The firft was the Annual Poa. 



Of this I gathered a quantity fo early as the 

 month of April. Its feeds drop off before they are 

 dry, and to appearance before they are ripe. The 

 utmoft care is therefore ncceifary in gathering the 

 blades, without which very few of the feeds will 

 be faved. It ripens from the middle of April, to 

 fo late, I believe, as the end of October; but 

 moftly difappears in the middle of the fummer. 

 It grows in any foil and fituation, but rather af- 

 fects the made. 



idly. The fecond was the Vernal. 



This colt me more labour and time in collect- 

 ing, than either of the other forts, owing to its 

 being furrounded with taller graffes at the time of 

 its ripening, and being almoft hid among them. 



If 



