OBSERVATIONS ON GRASSES. 381 



GENUS 25. 

 SOFT grafs Holcus Lanatus 



H. R. 404.14. 



Genus the firft. VERNAL. Tab. 1 . 



This grafs grows very commonly on dry hills, 

 and likewife on found rich meadow land. It is 

 one of the earlieil grafles we have, and from 

 its being found on fuch kinds of paftures as 

 Iheep are fond of, and from whence excellent 

 mutton comes, it is moft likely to be a good 

 grafs for fheep paftures. It gives a grateful 

 odor to hay. 



ADDITION. This grafs i have found on all 

 kinds of grounds^ from the moft fandy and dry to the 

 moft ftiff and moift^ and even in bogs^^ It is very 

 •plentiful in the beft meadows about London^ viz. to- 

 wards Hampftead and Hendon. It is very eajy to 

 gather^ as i have found by experience-^ as it Jheds 

 its feeds upon the leaft rubbing. 

 Genus the fixth. Meadow FOX-TAIL ,Iab. 2. 



This grafs as well as the foregoing is found 

 in great plenty in our bcft meadows about 

 London, and i believe makes very good hay. 

 Linnasus fays that it is a proper grafs to low on 

 grounds that have been drained. 



ADDITION. / am informed that the beft 



hay 



