found inRlmoft ewry watery ditch, flowering from the biMmnng te '«£* 0 * «Sommef, *™ jr 
-fruffificstion which are peculiar to the Grafles, large enough to be S.ft«aiy drfcefned even by the naked tye, 
and fo expofed as to be vifible without the trouble of dine chon. 
Modem Botanifts fccm much divided whether they Ml cbufider this as a f» Cohtta^dlhff ff Ll“- 
-that we mould in the lead advance our favourite Science by altering its generic 
warns, although we are by no means fatisfied with bis generic charafters of the G. “ Jffi*. 
that futute otfevations and a more accurate attention to the minute parts of therr fto&EcaBOD, will place 
nera in a much clearer point of view 'than has yet been done by any author. 
ProfdSor Ofwer in his FIMA D'AMci.undtJie celebrated Somni in Ms AgrostogRApSia, have both given 
a«&s!a!»aw.Si3SS 
carver Kites 
characTerize this fpecies. He has reprefented the Styles as branched or featured _qmte ^dmvnto _theG^&, W*ea^ 
they ate evidently necked at bottom and much branched at lop only ; the Angular Squamu a i ir SokdMtetaie o t he Ger 
mm he has properly noticed, but the torn little Horns at the top of the feed, 
which in a peculiar manner diftinguilh this important feed, he ***** 
likewife feathered down to the Germen and the Squamula -at the bafe of the Geimeh wholly otalted. 
This Grafs Is found to he bf confiderable importance in the ceconothyof Nature. 
The P« r . Fefluae or Gold Spot ^ which 
ticular manner of finding it we lhall give under that grafs. 
pSarly frrinffi they |eTequ|n^ « 
its fweet young fhoots, which appear earlier than thofe of mof other Gralles. 
Profeflor KAMM ill a journey through part of Sweden, obferved the Swine to go a great way into the water after 
«. iT I tatwCT, they St With great eagernefs ; on this he was tempted to try rf they would eat the 
«. iW® graft dried ■ he accordingly had fault bundles of it gathered, dried, and call before them ; the eonfequence 
“ was tley it feemiugly with® l much appetite as horfesdo hay hence he concludra that by cultivating thu gmfs, 
- wt t andfummpy places might be rendered ufeful, and a great deal of corn, & c. faved . 
He who Introduced the method of feeding hogs in fummer time on Clover ^eferved very well of ^countr# , and 
if the hay of this grafs would keep them in heart during the winter, it might prove a very valuable dilcovery. 
Mr. Kent in his hint, to Gentlemen of landed frosty, lately publiihed, confiders this 
-fibres us CP ->a.) it is to be improved above all others, and at a lefs expence, merely by flooding,, (p. 54 J be m 
forms ns that flowing deftroy. J weeds, and enriches the land to a very high degree j (p. j6 J he fays ^ as red lrng and 
oreffure brine- this annual meadow-mifs, lb flooding immediately begets the pit JiflM. Thefe attertions of Mr. Kent 
nor the accurately praaical Farmer, they contain an exaggerated account orimprovmg 
pafture land by a particular pfocefs, but fhow a great want of that minute attention which fo important a fubjed required. 
From a long refidence in Hatnpfhire, we well know that the meadows ill that county are confiderably improved by 
flooding them® that is flopping tile water when there happens to be an unufual quantity from violent or long contniu- 
ed S, and by means o'f «Inches or gripes, conveying the furplus water fo ^ ot^ow them 
Me- but we deny that by this proceii allweeds are defttoyed, the ufe of manure fuperfeded, or that Jtote JeJcuegraJs 
is MU gotten. Al hough it is a conflant praffice with the farmers to flood their meadows in the winter it 
S W good crops of grafs to manure them with dung or afhes 
Flooding can no otherwife deftroy weeds than by altering the foil m which they grow and rf 
weeds it muft certainly favour the growth of another : if thofe plants which throve heft in a dry iituation ate aearoyea 
bv the HtSXfXfe now takes place in the foil, thofe which are fond of a moift fituat.on will proportionally flou- 
tifh If the fete fefeue grafs was immediately produced by flooding, we foould find all thofe meadows lAich . e 
mf —’ “ thankMr - “ 
giving them iuch a hint. 
“ Mr Stillinfffleet informs us that Mr. Deane a very fenfible Fanner at Rufcomb, in Berkfhire, affured him, that 
*■ a field alway lying underwater of about four acres, that was occupied by Ms father when he was a boy was covered 
“ ^Ith a khrd y o/gra®f3 that maintained five farm-horfes in good heart from Apr. to the end giving 
“ them any other food and that it yielded more than they could eat. He at my defire brought me tome ot the 
.. S which proved to be thejta fefeue with a mixture of»# bent ; whether this laft contributes much towards 
“ lirnifoing fo good pafture for horfes I cannot fay, they both throw out roots at the pints of the fla ks and therefore 
“ likely to grof t 0 P a great length. In the index of dubious plants at the end of Ray s Synoffi, there is mention 
<. ma de ofa grafs under the name of Gramen caninum fupimm hr.giffmum growing not far from SaB/hry 'twenty-four feet 
« bug • this muft by ka length be a grafs with a creeping ftalk ; and that there rs a grafs M Wrltflure, growing ... 
warerV meadows fo valuable that an acre of it lets from ten to twelve pounds, I have been Informed by feveral 
perfT TWe circumftances incline me to think it muft be th ofote fefeue , but whatfoever grals rt be it certam- 
“ ly muft deferve to be enquired after”. 
It may not be improper to add, that the account of the extraordinary long grals above mentioned 
Rav fromth c Phytographia Britannica, which mentions the particular foot where it grew, via. at Mi. Tuckers, . 
Haddington, nine miles from Saliftrary ; it is aifo remarked that they fat Hogs with tt. 
As it is now above a century force this enquiry was firft made, is it not Ufo g *^*&f*J^ 
ter fhould have acquired fatisfaftory information concerning it ? I am promifed ipecimens Upou 
