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therefore be fuffered to remain 'till the ftalks are 

 quite dry. It bloflbms the beginning of June, 

 and its feeds are ripe in July. 



6th!y. The Common Poa. 



This I mould rather call the Great Poa; the 

 flowering ftalks being of a much taller growth 

 than the former: but this the Linnaean fyftem 

 forbids. One of the fpecifick characters of the 

 Common Poa [Poa trivialis] in that fyftem is, that 

 it contains only three florets in each little fpike, 

 which perfectly agrees with this grafs: whereas 

 the Great Poa [Poa Pratenjis] is defcribed as con- 

 taining Jive, which anfwers to the former. I have 

 obferved this grafs to grow in great abundance, 

 even to the exclufion of almoft all other kinds, in 

 thofe places in meadows over which the water 

 has been conftantly flowing the whole winter. 



I am quite of opinion that this is the grafs 

 which the very ingenious Mr. Anderson, in his 

 Difquilitions on Agriculture, wifhes to diftinguifh 

 by the name of the Vernal foft Grafs, and which 

 he is certainly miftaken in fuppofing to be the 

 HoIchs Lanatus of Hudfon. 



This very accurate defcription leaves me no 

 room to doubt that it is this \cry grafs, viz. the 



Common 



