ee MO a ened eat ee eee oe ae ee i pekeeees Gay han waa 
a a eas . : 
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tensively cultivated, in this country,—chiefly as food for horses. Dr. 
Jounson took occasion, in compiling his Dictionary, to fling a sarcasm 
at the Scotch, by — oats to be the food of horses in England, and 
men in Scotlan ae if the effects of climate were a fit subject on 
which to taunt a anaes Yet this was but one of many instances of-his 
national prejadice and illiberali ity. 
This — better than Barley, in a thin soil; and is there- 
fore frequently employed, in the rotation of , when Ba would 
have bee been preferred, had the land been good. e A. nupA, L., called — 
“ skinless bie — 5-flowered 
tially cultivated, by the curi curious, on account of its superior fitness for — 
aaklar Octane as an article of diet for the sick. BS ihepraces 
23. ARRHENATHE’ RUM, Beawv. Oar-crass. Le 
_ (Greek, Ahrrhen, male, and Afher, awn ; ‘the staminate floret being awned.} — 
Spilelts 2Aowered with the rudiment of a third, terminal one; middle : 
; two lower flow i ; 
C= 267. ari earner is the wo tthe : 
the lowermost awned, pistil removed to ex! 
Scales at the base of the hairy 
