370 OBSERVATIONS ON GRASSES. 



I now propofe to add a few obfervations an 

 feme of our graffes, as far as i have been able to 

 make any witli fome appearance of probability ; 

 but as there has reigned hitherto the greateft 

 confufion in the Enghih names of thefe moft 

 valuable plants, and as they have never been 

 properly ranged but by Linnsus, i fliall firft, 

 in imitation of that great author in his Flora 

 Suecica> oflve new o-enerical names with trivial 

 ones to diflinguifh the fpecies of all our Englifh 

 orrafTes '\ I mean all thofe which are found in 

 that author ; as for the reft, fince fome are 

 omitted by him, their names may be eafily fup- 

 plyed when their genera are fettled by the 

 learned^. It happens very luckily, that our 

 common people know fcarce any of the gralTes 

 by names, as far as i could ever find by con- 

 verfing with farmers, hufbandmen, &c. fo that 

 fomething may be done to remove this con- 

 fufion, if a lift of names be fettled and agreed 



' Mr. Hudfon having thought proper to adopt my name* 

 w?th fome alterations ; and having cleared up many of the 

 fpecies of graffes in a better manner than has been done be- 

 fore ; i hr.ve referred throughout to his Flora Britannica, 

 v/hich is likely to be in the hands of all who are curious ia 

 bi tany. 



^ This has fmce been done in fome meafure in the aforc- 

 mcjuioned Flora Britannica. 



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