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Of the miscellaneous herbage, upwards of 98 per cent, was 
Achillea Millefolium, a familiar plant upon Downs. The remainder was 
made up of Cerastium triviale, Luzula campestris, Prunella vulgaris, Bellis 
perennis, Cardamine pratensis, and Potentilla sp. The grasses yielded the 
following percentages : — ■ 
Festuca ovina et var 66 Anthoxanthum odoratum . . 8 
Agrostis vulgaris 19 A vena flavescens 2 
Cynosurus cristatus .... 8 Undetermined 2 
PARK AN T D MEADOW. 
No. 79. — The extensive preparations which were being made early in 
1889 for the Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, in Windsor Great 
Park, suggested a rare opportunity for the examination of the turf of that 
ancient grass-laud. I accordingly made application to Sir Nigel Kingscote, 
at the Office of Woods, and he kindly placed me in communication with 
Mr. Simmonds, the Deputy-Surveyor of "Windsor Parks and Woods, by 
whom the turf was sent. The specimen was six inches deep ; the soil was 
a dirty, yellowish-brown, ferruginous clay, and no root-hbres were to be 
seen on the lower face. The turf, mown on July 27, yielded : — ■ 
Gramineous herbage, 99 | Leguminous, 1 | Miscellaneous, a trace. 
The herbage was thus of an excessively grassy nature, the only plants 
detected besides grasses being Trifoliuni repens, Trifolium pratense, and 
Ranunculus sp. The separation of the grasses gave the subjoined result : — 
Agrostis sp 56 Cynosurus cristatus .... 1 
Lolium perenne 18 Alopecurus pratensis \ 
Pestuca ovina et var 17 Poa sp. f ' * ' 
Phleum pratense 4 Undetermined 3 
Much of the Agrostis was A. stolonifera, but A. vulgaris was also 
present. 
No. 80.— A turf sent by Mr. E. Stratton, The Duffryn, Newport, Mon., 
from a field that has been mown every year for at least forty years. This 
meadow-land adjoins the old pasture-land from which turf No. 33 was taken. 
The specimen was nine inches deep, and the soil was a dark red, sticky lcam, 
with no trace of rootlets on the lower face. From the outset the herbage 
was seen to be very weedy, and, cut on J uly 6, it yielded : — 
Gramineous herbage, 49 | Leguminous, 1 | Miscellaneous, 50. 
Trifolium repens and Trifolium pratense were the leguminous species 
present. The miscellaneous ingredients consisted mainly of Rumex Acetosa 
and Achillea Millefolium, the former rather preponderating. The remainder 
was made up of small quantities of Cerastium triviale, Bellis, and Ranunoulus. 
The grasses yielded the following constituents : — 
IIolcus lanatus 25 Cynosurus cristatus .... 2 
Lolium perenne 22 Poa trivialis 2 
Bromus mollis 18 Anthoxanthum odoratum . . 1 
Alopecurus pratensis .... 17 Undetermined 4 
Agrostis sp 9 
The Durham turf (No. 52) is also, after ten years' continuous mowing, 
a true meadow turf. 
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