THE PRINCIPLES OP BOTANY. 
735 
The remedial measures adopted were as follows : The 
animals were removed to a sheltered and well littered yard, 
and put on nutritious food, with flour gruel to drink. Ferri 
Sulphas in combination with gruel and Zingib. was prescribed, 
the two latter agents to give increased tone to the stomach, and 
the iron wdth a view to augment the number of red cells in 
the impoverished blood. Under this treatment our patients 
quickly rallied, the diarrhoea being stayed, and the appetite 
returning, with other favorable appearances. 
We saw the animals from time to time, but not since August 
19th, when they were fast gaining strength, and since then the 
owner has informed me that they had entirely recovered. 
I consider this to be a well-marked case of ansemia, arising 
out of long-continued diarrhoea, caused by the animals par- 
taking of the sand, &c., as before mentioned, and further 
aggravated by the exhibition of purgative medicine, the long 
drought and scarcity of keep, no doubt, playing their share 
in the production of the derangement, the heart’s action 
becoming enfeebled by the scanty supply of blood which 
would be minus some of its vitality, resulting in loss of 
tonicity to the coats of the arteries. We can, in the same 
measure, account for the viscera becoming affected, no 
doubt resulting upon congestion in the first instance. 
Portions of the viscera were sent to the College for the 
inspection of Assistant- Professor Axe, who also considered 
this to be the nature of the disease. 
THE PEINCIPLES OF BOTANY. 
By Professor James Buckman, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. 
[Continued from p. 680.) 
The Gramminaceje. 
The natural order to which grasses and their allies belong 
is so important to man and the animals under his care, that 
they may well form a subject for many volumes ; we may, 
therefore, be excused if, leaving out the discussion of their 
structure, we devote the present chapter to a few notes on 
their economical bearing. 
Grasses form an exceedingly natural group of plants ; at the 
same time they afford considerable variations of structure, e. g. 
the floral organs differ in their parts and their positions, for 
while a few have separate and distinct flowers for their seed- 
