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cestershire, this grass is blown and dry, down to the 

 root, yet that sweet odour peculiar to hay while it is 

 making is as powerful to the olfactory sense as in 

 other counties, where the hay is made at an earlier 

 season, when this grass, at the time of mowing, may 

 be supposed to be in perfection. Another reason 

 for objecting to the scent exclusively proceeding from 

 this grass, is, that in meadows where it does not 

 abound no diminution of fragrance is perceived in 

 the harvest j it would therefore seem, under the 

 most favourable circumstances, only to contribute its 

 share, and not to be the sole cause of the fragrance 

 of new-made hay. The sweet odour of this grass 

 resides in the stem, more particularly in the joints, 

 and not in the spike or flower. This, and Bromus 

 diandrus are the only two British grasses which have 

 fewer than three stamina, and are the only English 

 plants of this Order. 



ORDER 3. 



No British Plant of this Order. 



BLACK PEPPER. The different species of Pep- 

 per are very many. Professor Martyn enumerates 

 sixty. They are all natives of the East and West In- 



Three Pis- 



tiiia. dies ; a few in the islands of the South Seas, two or 



three of the Cape of Good Hope, but none of Europe. 



Black Pepper is a shrubby plant, and grows spon- 



TRVGY- 

 NIA. 



