314 Cultivation of Arable Land Laying down to Grafs What necefjary in, 



Much difficulty has without doubt been thrown in the way of introducing the 

 mod proper forts of grafles, in laying lands down to fward, from their near refem. 

 blances to each other, in many inftances, requiring the niceft difcernment to diftm- 

 guifli them, and from the want of other means of procuring them. 



It has been lately obferved by an intelligent botanical writer, that if grafs-lands, 

 fuch as downs, paftures, and meadows, be carefully examined, they will all, except 

 fuch as have been recently laid down with rye grafs or clover, be found much in a 

 ftate of nature, replete with an indifcriminate mixture of plants, fome of which pro 

 duce cattle-food of a good kind; others, fuch as is of a very indifferent defcription;, 

 fome affording good crops, while others fcarcely yield any at ail.* It is therefore 



* Curtis s Practical Obfervation onBritifh GraCe . 



This accurate botanift, on procuring fmall turfs, taken indiscriminately from different downs and 

 c immons in Hampshire and Sufiex, employed as fheep pafiures, found, on their being planted in his 

 garden, that they produced the following forts of plants: 



Turf from Seldom Common. 



Produced Plantago lanceolata. Agroftis capillaris. Avena flavefcens, Daftylis glornerata. Feftnca 

 duriufcula. Poa annua. Cynofurus criftatus. Trifolium repens. Crepes te&orum. Achillea 

 Millefolium. Galium Terurn. Hypochaeri radicata. Hieracium Pilofella. Thymus Surpyllum. 



Turf from Oakhanger. 

 Trifolium repens. Holcus lanatus. Poa annua. Agroftis capillaris. Agroftis paluftris. 



Turf from Deortwn. 



Ranunculus repens. Lolium perenne. Holcus lanatus. Prunella vulgaris. Feftuca- duriufcula, 

 Agroftis paluftris. Trifolium repens. Crepis te^orum. Achillea Millefolium. 



Turf from GlyndHill. 

 Medicago lupulina. Aehillea Millefolium. Poa pratenfis. 



Turf from the same* 



Avena flavefcens. Feftuca duriufcula. Feftuca ovina. Hieracium Pilofella. Agroftis eapillaris. 

 Trifolium repens. Thymus Serpyllum. 



Turf from Short Heath. 

 Feftuca bromoides. Aira praecox. Juncus campeftris. Poa aniiua. Agroftis capillaris. 



Turf from Mount Cabron. 



Jlumex Acetofa. Daucus Carota. Medicago lupulina. Poterium Sanguiforba. Feftuctr duriufcula. 

 Avena flavefcens. 



Turf from Ringmer Down. 



Linum catharticum. Scabiofa columbaria. Ornithopus perpufillus. Avena flavefcens. Feftuca 

 duriufcula. Trifolium repens. Hypochoeris radicata. Crepis tetforum. Lotus corniculatus. 

 Juncus campeftris. Hieracium Pilofella. Feftuca ovina. Thymus Serpyllum. Poa pratenfis. 



In fix fmall turfs, taken from different parts of the uncommonly productive meadow near Salisbury, 



