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banks of ditches and elsewhere. It is sown here in the 

 kitchen gardens and used in the winter-time and also in 

 the spring while it is still tender, as salad, or more cor- 

 rectly speaking as gron-kal, chouvert, in the same way 

 as we in Sweden prepare spinach. If they have not 

 planted it in the kitchen gardens they avail themselves of 

 the wild ones. 



Angar och deras gras-vaxt. Meadows and their 

 Grass Growth. 



On the whole of this side of London which we visited 

 to-day there was a great multitude of inclosures, or 

 tappor, nearly all laid out as meadows. The land 

 around Hampstead consisted mostly of hills, long-sloping 

 on all sides. The grass-growth in them was very beau- 

 tiful, and now as long as any on our very best meadows 

 in Sweden at the end of June, which is principally owing 

 to this, that these meadows are here commonly manured 

 every year. On most of the meadows around Hampstead 

 the grass growth consisted almost solely of Bromus, 87 

 [Banks, MS. 'varietas secalini '], which here stood as 

 thick as the thickest rye-fields, and every plant was 

 2 feet 6 inches high or more. When this grass grew on 

 high hills, kullar, and on very dry places, it was not 

 longer than it commonly is in Sweden. 



[T. I. p. 418.J 

 Some other kinds of grass had mingled themselves 

 amongst it, but they were so few, that it is not worth 

 while to mention them. Among them, however, Alope- 

 curus 52 [A. pratensis L.J, was the commonest. I also 

 noted however, that in most of the beautiful meadows 

 which are-found round London, both these aforenamed 

 kinds of grass have nearly always formed the most 

 plentiful, best, and most luxuriant grass-growth. I 

 should also think that if we in Sweden, especially near to 



