joo CULTIVATED GRASSES. 11. 



open for the fibrils of plants to ipfinuate 

 themfelves. 



In the neighbourhood of PICKERING faint- 

 foin has been repeatedly tried ; but, I be- 

 lieve, without one inflance of tolerable fuc- 

 cefs. The plants, I underftand, rofe very 

 well from the feed ; but never got up to a 

 cvop ; and in a fhort time difappearcd. 



On examining a piece of limeftohe land 

 which was fown with faintfoin, by my father, 

 ibrne fifty or fixty years ago, I find, in one 

 particular part of it, a few plants ftill furviv- 

 ing. 



To afcertain the nature of the paflurage 

 which could give fuch unufual longevity to 

 thefe plants (iuppofing them to be remains 

 of the originally cultivated roots), I dug 

 down by the fide of two plants which grew 

 within a few inches of each other : one of 

 them remarkably healthy, though not luxu- 

 riant : the other, a declining plant; half of 

 its top decayed. 



The roots (truck downward, perpendicu- 

 larly, and parallel to each other -, throwing 

 out a few (lender fide rootlets. 



Near 



