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take much from the merits above mentioned. It appears, 

 therefore, to be unfit for cultivation by itself as an alternate 

 husbandry grass ; but of great value as a constituent of any 

 mixture of grasses for permanent pasture, or the alternate 

 husbandry, where it should always form a part. 



In the Annual Register for 1765, we find that it was 

 much recommended about fifty years ago, under the name 

 of Timothy-grass ; and Mr. Wynch is said to have brought 

 it from Virginia in 1763. It received this quaint appellation 

 from Mr. Timothy Hanson, who first brought its seeds from 

 New York to Carolina. It had then a great character in 

 America, where it is called Herd-grass. I was, in 1815, 

 informed by a proprietor of land in Canada, that it is still 

 considered the best grass in that province. 



It flowers in the third week of June, and ripens the seed 

 in the end of July. 



PHLEUM pratense, var. minus. Smaller variety of Mea- 

 dow Cat's-tail Grass. 



Obs. — This differs from the preceding variety in the 

 dagger-like points which terminate the husks, these 

 being longer in this variety, and more recurved or bent 

 outwards ; the husks are larger in every respect, and 

 less ciliated. Culms almost covered with the sheaths 

 of the leaves ; joints of the culm less swoln, not upright, 

 but ascending ; and the root is more like a bulb. These 

 distinctions have continued stedfast after the plant has 

 been twice raised from seed. The annexed specimen 

 was produced from the second sowing. The foregoing- 

 specimen of the first variety is also of the second 

 sowing; both varieties were raised on the same soil, 

 and, indeed, on the same bed of earth. Fig. 1. Calyx 

 magnified. Native of Britain. Root perennial. 



Experiments. — At the time of flowering, the produce from 

 a clayey loam is 14,973 lbs. per acre. 



The produce of latter-math 9,528 lbs. per acre. 



A comparison will show how inferior this smaller variety 

 of meadow cat's-tail grass is to the larger variety. The 



