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per cent. of the same; Crested Dog’s-tail and Cock’s-foot respec- 
tively 4°13 and 4-06. The two latter have always been highly 
esteemed. The Barley-grasses are disliked by cattle while pas- 
turing, as much as barley-straw is disliked by animals in the stall 
or in the strawyard. 
There is an exotic Grass, Poa sudetica, which has been observed 
in several parts of Middlesex and Surrey, in the neighbourhood 
of London, for several years, and which we would seriously re- 
commend to the author of this work, and to agriculturists and 
seedsmen in general. It is an early Grass, very hardy (it isa 
native of Sweden), and retains its hold on the soil. Its root- 
leaves are abundant, somewhat hassocky, much broader and longer 
than the foliage of either Poa pratensis or P. trivialis ; both, but 
especially the latter, valuable Grasses. Poa sudetica, the Swedish 
Poa, far surpasses these in the quantity of green herbage or of — 
fodder which it is capable of yielding. We should have much 
pleasure in sending either specimens or seeds to the Curator of 
the Royal Botanic Society’s Garden, if he will inform us how we 
could do this free of cost. 
We beg leave to thank the author for his book, which we beg 
leave cordially to recommend to our readers, and especially to 
such of them as are interested in agrarial pursuits. From our 
own knowledge of such matters, we commend it as a trustworthy 
guide; and we are glad to be able to state that its usefulness will 
not be impaired by either its price-or its style, for unnecessary 
technicalities are carefully avoided. 
We have never noticed the term ‘“ phcenoragamous”’ before,— 
is it a misprint for ‘phanerogamous’ or ‘ phenogamous,’ from 
gavepos and yauos, or daww and yaos ? 
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Cerastium arvense, var. 8. strictum.—Since I sent you the Notes from 
my Journal, I have found the var. 8. strictum of Cerastium arvense,in a 
field close to the sea-shore near the town of Galway, growing in patches 
among stones. Stem recumbent at the base, then ascending. I could 
not find the plant described in any Flora in my possession. “T therefore 
sent it to a botanical correspondent at Minehead, who retumed it as “. 
strictum of Cerastium arvense,’ described in Steele’s ‘Handbook of Field 
Botany,’ p. 84, second edition, and giving as the only locality, ‘‘ Great 
Isle of Arran.” “8, strictum: stem declinate, with sublinear, acuminate, 
