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On Natural Grasses. ' 



appearance of a perpetual spring, when close fed tlownl 



By the ahove management the land will be able to keep one-fourth more 

 stock when grazed, and it will produpe one-fourth more grain. when converted 

 into tillage than it did before. How great are the advantages which such ma- 

 nagement holds out to the landlord, the tenant, and the nation ! 



But agriculture can never arrive at that pitch of perfection of which it is 

 capable, until leases are granted, tythes commuted, &c. and the ingenuity of the 

 agriculturists unshackled from the restraints imposed upon them by land- 

 tasters, &c. 



Millstones have been called the artificial teeth of mankind, by grinding/ 

 farinaceous seeds into powder, which facilitates their decomposition; and renders 

 them more nutritious. So millstones and the chaff-cutter may be called the teeth 

 of our most useful domestic animals. Hence the necessity of crushing their corn, 

 and of cutting their hay and straw, which facilitates their decomposition and 

 renders them more nutritious. 



But besides the ten grasses M'hich I have particularly described, there are 

 above a hundred more; and perhaps it may be gratifying to many of my readers, 

 to present them here with an enumeration of all the British natural grasses. 



Class II. Diandria. Order Digynia, 



1. Anthoxanthum Odoratum. Sweet scented Vernal Grflw.-- Already described. 



Class III. Triandria. Order Digynia. 



2. Phalaris ^anariensis. Manured Canary Grass, 



Sown frequently for bird's-seed. Annual, flowering in June— August. 



3. Phalaris Arenaria. Sea Canary Grass, 

 This is an insignificant grass of ten weeks duration only. It grows ori 

 sandy beaches, and affords plenty of seed for finches. 

 Annual, flowering in June. 



4. Phalaris Phleoides. Cat's-fail Canary Grass. 

 In some parts of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Perennial, flowering in June. 



