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fibrous or spongy; — the inclosure, drainage, and top- 

 dressing oHhese wiW cost the Society very little. Weeding 

 I have no doubt I shall scarcely trouble. I have often 

 complained when I have not severities to assist me in this 

 operation ; but I am well assured I shall not be stinted on 

 Dartmoor, as Nature has bestowed them in greater pro- 

 fusion on this mountain tract, than it seems entitled to, 

 either from latitude or elevation. 



Both Bessy Bell and Knocklaid are higher moun- 

 tains than Dartmoor ; yet I saw our spontaneous stolo- 

 nifera in good health on the summit bf each ; and the 

 strong stolo my friend Mr. Dickenson inclosed to me, 

 which he had himself found growing near the prison on 

 Dartmoor, was not like the agrostides of Lower Devon, 

 the vulgaris, but the true stolonifera. 



