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Sjileiiic Aj.oplexi/. 
Plants in Meadow near the Victobia. 
Botanical Name. 
Trivial Name. 
Proportionals. 
Ranunculus acris . . 
Aira csespitosa * . . 
Cynosurus cristatus 
Hordeum pratense 
Holcus lanatus 
Alopecurus pratensis . . 
Lolium perenne . . 
Anthoxanthum odoratum 
Festuca pratensis . . 
Avena flavescens . . 
Trifolium 
Good herbage 
Upright crowfoot .. 
Tussac grass .. 
Crested dogstail 
Meadow wild barley 
Woolly soft grass .. 
Meadow foxtail 
Perennial rye grass 
Sweet vernal grass 
Meadow fescue 
Yellow oat grass .. 
Trefoils 
10 
5 
5 
3 
3 
3 
2 
1 
4 
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This field I should have expected would be free from diseases - 
and I have no hesitation in affirming that, in no case of what was 
described as "diseased ground," did I find anything like tho 
quantity of the last six plants in the above list. 
Bej'ond the above field is a large tract of ground, which is flat 
and marshy ; here occurs a field divided into three parts, in tho 
occupation of Mr. Wake. 
These three parts were described as varying in their power to 
produce disease. 
The whole hundred acres were tolerably free from good grasses : 
these, however, were more plentiful in the higher part, which had 
been more often manured "because it pays better," and here there- 
has not been so much disease. 
It should be noted that in one part of the field described as sound, 
and certainly dry on the occasion of my visit, I yet observed a 
considerable quantity of Alopecurus geniculatus {jioatvig (!) foxtail), a 
plant which sufficiently indicates that wet prevails over the greater 
part of the year. Here one does not wonder that there should bo 
disease. 
It now remains to notice Mr. Look's meadows, which I shall first 
do in the order in which I saw them, commenting more particularly 
upon tliem afterwards. * 
First we went through some sound pastures, in which good grasses 
abounded. In them there had been no disease. 
" Middle and home ground." — Little of good grasses ; grips full 
of Aira cwspitosa : disease. 
"Pill-Bridge ground." — Laid down six years; rye-grass and _ 
Dutch clover prevail : no disease. 
" Beaton's Leas." — Improved by cutting up the tussac gi'asR* 
Considered it at present the best meadow in summer. 
* In this instance the tussac grass was diffused with the rest of the herbage, not 
in bull pates, as it occurs in wet or stagnant spots. 
