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On the Mixed Herbage of Permanent Meadow. [June 17, 



VIII. " Agricultural, Botanical, and Chemical Results of Experi- 

 ments on the Mixed Herbage of Permanent Meadow, con- 

 ducted for more than Twenty Years in Succession on the 

 same Land. Part II. The Botanical Results." By J. B. 

 Lawes, LL.D.. F.R.S., F.C.S.. J. H. Gilbert, Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 F.C.S., F.L.S., and M. T. Masters, M.D, F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 Received June 17, 1880. 



(Abstract.) 



Part II. — The Botanical Uesidts. 



In Part I (" Phil. Trans.," Part 1, 1880), nnder the title of the " Agri- 

 cultural Results,''' a general description of the experiments, with full 

 particulars of the conditions of manuring of each of the more than 

 twenty plots, was given. The effects of each condition of manuring 

 on the character of growth of the herbage, as illustrated in the quanti- 

 ties of produce yielded, and in the amounts of nitrogen and of mineral 

 matter taken up, on each plot, were also fully considered. But, so 

 varied were the components of the mixed herbage, both as to the species 

 grown, and as to the character of development of the plants, that, to 

 render the " Agricultural residts " sufficiently intelligible, and to prevent 

 misconception, if the element of quantity only were taken into account, 



