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do good to his fields by ploughing the ground 

 and eating the roots of couch-grafs^ whereas 

 they never touch them, but when prcfvjd by 

 the utmoll neccflicy ^ 



To give a view of my defign in a fev/ words. 

 I have difpofed the plants mentioned in the 

 Flora Suecica according to their numbers ; and 

 to be as fhort as poflible, it was neceflary to add 

 the generical name with a fliort and incompleat 



•^ In the fame way with us it is a notion that prevails com- 

 monly that C01.VS eat the cro-w-foot that abounds in many 

 meadows, and that this occafions the butter to be yellow, 

 /rem whence i fuppofe it is generally known by the name of 

 the butter-fio^er. But this i believe is all a miftake, for i 

 never could obferve that any part of that plant was touched 

 by C01M5 or any other cattle. Thus Linnsus obferves, Fl. 

 Lapp, p, 195. that it was believed by fome people that the 

 tnarjh-marygold made the butter yellow, but he denies that 

 cows ever touch that plant. Yet he thinks that all kinds of 

 pafture will not give that yellownefs, and then obferves that 

 the beft and yelloweil butter he knows, and which is prefer- 

 red by the dealers in thofe parts to all other butter, was made 

 where the coiv-ivbeat grew in greater plenty than he ever 

 faw any where elfe. This fhevvs how very incurious the 

 countrey people are in relation to things they are every day 

 converfant with, and which it concerns them fo much to 

 know. 



A a 4 epithet. 



