14 PACT NUMBER ONE. 



longer and better than any body else. Mr. Chilton, an emi- 

 nent Chemist and Botanist of the city of New- York, when 

 shown the grass, said it was a species of Dog Grass ; but 

 of what kind he was not then able to determine. Chilton's 

 remark is probably correct ; for observation proves that the 

 Dog does in fact eat it, instinctively, though very sparingly, 

 and that it acts on him as a medicine. 



Professor Gray of Boston, a gentleman who enjoys the re- 

 putation of being one of the most accomplished Botanists of 

 this or any other country, said, when a stem of this grass 

 was presented to him, " the Botanical name of the plant is 

 Digitari a S anguinalis," but he had no common name for 

 it. In the absence, however, of a traditionary cognomen, we 

 venture to christian it Slobber Grass, and under that de- 

 nomination, we represent it, at full length and perfection, in 

 the opposite cut, by which we presume it may be very easily 

 identified. 



The name of the grass is of but little moment compared 

 with its perfect identity, and the wide spread evils with 

 which it is visiting our whole country. 



The mere slobbering or salivation of the horse, is, with 

 respect to this noble animal, only the beginning of trouble ; 

 for when the slobbering is suffered to run on for twelve or 

 fourteen weeks in the year, without a check, it almost inva- 

 riably passes into a disease commonly called the Scowers, 

 or a kind of Flux, that sometimes proves fatal. If however 

 this complaint is survived, a vitiated state of the blood ensues 

 which generally brings on the Yellow Water, or a kind 

 of Dropsy, which, in hard weather, almost always carries the 

 animal off. 



