io6 NATURAL GRASSES. 12, 



fynonimous with MEADOW, as ufcd in forne 

 Diftrids; or CAR, which is fynonimous with 

 MARSH or FEN, and with the meadow of Nor- 

 folk. 



While the Vale lay in its open ftate, the 

 INGS were the only wow/elands it contained, 

 In ordinary fituations, all the land which lay 

 out of the water's way was converted to ara- 

 ble or common-field land; or to common 

 pqfture grounds. 



The. Ings are invariably SITUATED low ; 

 by the fides of rivers or rivulets ; generally 

 lying flat, and fubjecV. to be overflowed in 

 times of floods. 



The SOIL of the Ingland is moftly a firm 

 tenacious clay, on a cold retentive fubfoil. 

 Jn fome places the clay is covered with a ftra- 

 turn of black vegetable mould : generated, 

 probably, by the overflowing of fprings, 

 while the land lay in a ftate of nature, before 

 common-fhoTcs and ditches were opened, 



The HERBAGE of the LOWLANDS OF PlC- 



KERING confifts chiefly of the following 

 plants ; which I have endeavoured to place 

 according to their frequency in the open Ings, 

 which have in all probability been mown, 



without 



