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TRITICUM squarrositm, ami. angular, nat. Egypt. R. S. L. S. 

 Veg. i.p. 768. 

 villosum, arm. See Secale villosum. 

 campestre, ami. Secale compestre, Schult. Sub Secali sylvestri, 



Host. Gram. iv. t. 2. 

 Creticum, ami. Crete, nat. Crete and Corsica. Willd. Spec. i. 



p. 472. 

 spmulosum, per. spine-leaved. R. S. L. S. V. i. p. 769. 

 Mgilops, ami. nat. Georgia. Levant. See JEgUops squarrosa, 



ibid. 

 composition, atin. many-spiked wheat. Moris. Hist, s.8, t. 1, f 7. 

 turgidum, aim. Barbary wheat, ibid. s. 8, t. 1, f. 14. 

 LinncEanum, arm. simple-spiked. Trit. turgidum, var. ? 

 var. 1. quadratum, arm. cone-wheat, ibid. f. 13. 

 Polonicum, ami. Polish wheat, ibid. s. 8, t. 1, f. 8. Host. 



Gram. iii. t. 31. 

 Spelta, ami. Spelt wheat, ibid. s. 8. t. 6, f. 1. Host. Gram. iii. 



t. 30. 

 var. zea amylacea, ibid. s. 8, t. 6, f. 3. Host. Gram. iii. t. 29. 

 monococcum, arm. one-grained wheat. Moris. Hist. s. 8, t. 6, 

 f. 2. Zea briza. Host. iii. t. 32. 



Tlie Fesfuca wt/urus, having but one stamen, stands an exception to tliis 



arrangement. 



This Catalogue contains about one thousand five hundred 

 distinct species and varieties of the proper grasses, of which, up- 

 wards of one hundred and fifty are indigenous to Great Britain • 

 but, as the discoveries of Botanists still continue to add to the 

 number of new species and varieties, the term complete cannot be 

 applied to this enumeration. The highly valuable and important 

 Works of Sir James Edward Smith, of Brown, Humboldt, and 

 Bonpland, DecandoUe, Poiret, and other eminent Botanists, 

 have of late presented to the attention of the Agriculturist many 

 new species of grasses. 



As every different soil produces grasses peculiar to itself, and 

 as no other kinds can be established or cultivated upon it without 

 first changing its nature to resemble that which produced the 

 kinds of grasses we wish to introduce; it becomes a point of the 

 first importance, in making experiments on different species of this 

 numerous family of plants, and in stating the results, to determine 



