3S6 OBSERVATIONS ON GRASSES, 



Genus the fifteenth. Purple FESCUE. Tul^, 9; 

 ADDITION. TMs grafs i have always foimd 

 along with the fine BENT and filver HAIR- 

 GRASS, 'particularly on Banjlead Downs in 

 great plenty in a place inclofed in order to keep the 

 peep out. From hence i am inclined to think that 

 this is th€ chief grafs all over the Downs ^ but as the 

 flowering fl:ems in the other parts were intirely 

 gonCy unlefs along the hedges^ i could not he certain. 

 Flote FESCUE. "Tak 10. 

 I have no knowledge of the qualities of this 

 grafs from my own experience, but fliall quote 

 fomething concerning it out of a piece publifh- 

 ed in the Am.aen.Academ. vol. 3. entitled Plantpe 

 Efculentae. The author fays there, artic. 90. 

 that the feeds of this grafs are gathered yearly 

 in Poland, and fiom thence carried into Ger- 

 many and fometimes into Sv/eden, and fold un- 

 der the name of manna feeds. Thefe are much 

 ufed at the tables of the great on account of 

 iheir nourifliing quality and agreeable taftc. 

 It is wondcrfull, adds tlie author, that amongft 

 us thefe feeds have hitherto been negleded, 

 ftnce they are fo eafily coUeded and cleanfed. 



ADDITION. Mr, Dean, a very fenfible 

 farmer at Rufcomh^ Berkjhire^ afjured me that a 

 field always lying, under water of about four atrcj^. 



that 



