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nothing will come of that mofl ufefiil dddtrine de- 

 livered in the foregoing treatife of Haflelgren \ 

 But it is to be hoped that gentlemen at Icaft 

 will not be fo incurious as to remain ignorant of 

 what imports them lb much to know. Nor is 

 the mere botanift lefs concerned in the fuccefs 

 of this fcheme, for there is great reafon to think 

 that many of the grafles are not thoroughly- 

 fettled, varieties perhaps being put for diffe- 

 rent fpecies ^ -, now this uncertainty can never 

 be better cleared up than by fowing the fame 

 kind of feeds on different foils. 



^ Many people having exprefled a defire that i fhould have 

 plates of feme of the profitable grafles added to this piece, 

 that moft excellent man, the late Mr. Price of Foxley, whofe 

 •xtraordinary charadler i fhall always revere, and do intend 

 to give a {ketch of on feme future occafion, kindly con- 

 defcended to employ his pencil, which in the opinion of the 

 beft judges was equal to things of a much fuperior nature, in 

 making me feveral drawings from the plants themfeUes, and 

 a very able hand has fupplied the reft and engraved them all. 



^ Thus Gmelin Flor. Lapp, mentions four of the meadow 

 grades which he fayshave for a long time perplexed botanifts 

 of great reputation. And the editor of Ray's Synopfis, p. 

 402. doubts whether five graffes which are put down as dif- 

 ferent by Petiver be not only varieties of a grafs mentioned 

 before. I have many fpecimens of this grafs in my colletlion 

 diftfring in color, ftat.iie and outv/ard afpeit, which yet mofl 

 lii^ciy arc of the Um« fpecies. 



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