330 Report of the Consulting Botanist for 1885. 
Analyses of Gkass Mixtubes. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
1237. 
1253. 
1284. 
128d. 
1349. 
1556. 
1S71. 
1572. 
Meadow gi-asses 
40 
9 
37 
26 
20 
28 
22 
Cocksfoot 
y 
18 
13 
14 
30 
29 
33 
Foxtail 
7 
2 
2 
8 
22 
11 
9 
Dogstail 
G 
1 
4 
4 
Meadow fescue 
(j 
2)5 
8 
7 
13 
8 
20 
14 
Small fescues . . 
;{ 
11 
y 
15 
14 
18 
9 
9 
Fiorin 
12 
Timothy 
5 
" 
Oat grass 
" 
4 
Tall fescue 
3 
Clovers 
• • 
Sweet vernal .. 
9 
Eye-grass 
20 
45 
10 
4 
"V orkshire fog . . 
1 
1 
J. 
'i 
Brome grass 
1 
\ 
•; 
Slender foxtail . . 
1 
.. 
Glyceria distans 
7 
Aira ca3spitosa 
2 
Italian rye-grass 
■■ 
7 
Three-fourths of the bulk consisted of vegetable debris, chiefly 
of the flowers and empty pods of clover. The seeds consisted. 
of:— 
52 per cent, rye-grass. 
18 „ 
Yorkshire fog 
W „ 
trefoil 
5 „ 
red clover 
o 
•-> » 
liorin 
o 
^ )} 
dogstail 
2 per cent, meadow fescue 
1 „ cocksfoot 
1 „ meadow grasses 
1 „ buttercup 
1 „ ribgrass. 
That even Avorse material is disposed of to growers was shown- 
to me by the examination of a " sample of permanent pasture 
grass " offered by a firm of seed merchants in a market town in 
Lincolnshire to merchants in London, who, on seeing the cha- 
racter of the mixture, were good enough to send it to me for my 
information. This mixture is no doubt now forming a pasture 
somewhere in England, more permanent than the grower,, 
perhaps, wishes. It was composed of the following seeds : — 
46 per cent. Yurkshiro fug 
21 „ dogstail 
11 „ rye-grass 
;") ,, cock.sfout 
4 fn.Mail 
3 per cent, yellow-oat grass 
3 „ buttercup 
.'5 „ meadow grasses 
2 „ llote grass 
2 „ tiorin 
