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Article XXXVI. 

 Obfervations on Cow-Chver> and Cow-Wheah 



[By Mr. William Curtis, Author of the Flora 

 Londinenfis.J 



Gentlemen, 



THE fubjedt of the queries which I had the 

 honour of receiving from you, has often 

 engaged my attention ; and I have frequently won- 

 dered that many fenfible farmers and feeds-men 

 with whom I am acquainted, or have converfed, 

 fhould know fo little of a plant for which the latter 

 have fo great a demand. If the following obfer- 

 vations fliould prove in the lead fat is factory, I 

 fhali be highly gratified, 



i/?. Cow-Clover, or Cow-Grafs, are, I doubt 

 not, the fame plant : but Cow-Wheat belongs to a 

 very different genus ; the Mclampyrus of Linnaeus. 



idly. There are, growing wild in this country, 

 two fpecies of clover, much refembling each other 

 in fize, and in the colour of their blofibms.— 

 The one is the Trcfolium Pralenfe\ the other, the 

 ^refolium Alpeftre of Linnaeus. The former is 

 the common broad-leaved clover; the latter, the 



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