150 llOinUS GUAMINEUS WOBIJUNENSIS. 



On comparing the specimens of these different varieties, 

 their resemblance to each other is so great, that they may 

 be easily mistaken for each other, without a close inspection, 

 and some knowledge of botany to assist it. It was before 

 observed, that this variety (larger creeping bent or florin) 

 appears to be confined to rich ancient pasture land, as its 

 natural place of growth, and the other varieties to various 

 soils and situations : and that when taken from these 

 different soils, and cultivated together under the same 

 circuiy;stances, they retain the discriminating characters 

 before mentioned. 



On damp clayey soils, the second variety is the most 

 connuon grass. To moors and bog soils the third variety is 

 chiefly, or (at least according to my observations) altogether 

 confined. To light sandy soils, particularly when more or 

 less shaded, the fourth variety is peculiar; and the fifth 

 variety is seldom found but in the bottom of ditches, or by 

 the sides of rivulets. The first variety being therefore 

 scarce, and the others very common, there is little room for 

 surprise at the contradictory results of experiments that 

 hgive been made on one or other of these inferior 

 varieties, by gentlemen equally eminent for agricultural 

 knowledge, under the conviction of their being one and the 

 same grass as recommended by Dr. Richardson, under the 

 name of fiorin ; whereas, though they agree in the general 

 habit of Dr. Richardson's variety, and indeed in every 

 respect except in the characters before described, their 

 inferiority in every agricultural merit is so great, as to 

 justify the opprobrious epithets that have been bestowed 

 upon them by those, who, from the above causes, have 

 differed from Dr. Richardson's statements of the merits of 

 the first variety, or fiorin, and prevented that justice being 

 done to the discovery which it may have deserved. 



The above details will assist the farmer in deciding on 

 the comparative merits of this grass, as a constituent of a 

 mixture of grasses for permanent pasture ; from which it 

 will doubtless appear worthy of attention, but its value not 

 so great as has been supposed, if its habits or manner of 



