372 OBSERVATIONS ON GRASSES. 
nothing will come of that moft ufeful doctrine de- 
livered in the foregoing treatife of Hafielgren \ 
But it is to be hoped that gentlemen at lead: 
will not be fo incurious as to remain ignorant of 
what imports them fo much to know. Nor is 
the mere botanift lefs concerned in the fuccefs 
of this fcheme, for there is great reafon to think 
that many of the grades are not thoroughly 
fettled, varieties perhaps being put for diffe- 
rent fpecies m ; now this uncertainty can never 
be better cleared up than by fowing the fame 
kind of feeds on different foils. 
1 Many people having exprefted a defire that i fhould have 
plates of fome of the profitable graftes added to this piece, 
that moft excellent man, the late Mr. Price of Foxley, whofe 
extraordinary character i lhall always revere, and do intend 
to give a Iketch of on fome future occafion, kindly con- 
defcended to employ his pencil, which in the opinion of the 
beft judges was equal to things of a much fuperior nature, in 
making me feveral drawings from the plants themfelves, and 
a very able hand has fupplied the reft and engraved them all. 
m Thus Gmelin Flor. Lapp, mentions four of the meadow 
graftes which he fays have for a long time perplexed botanifts 
of great reputation. And the editor of Ray’s Synopfis, p. 
402. doubts whether five graftes which are put down as dif- 
ferent by Petiver be not only varieties of a grafs mentioned 
before. I have many fpecimens of this grafs in my colle&ion 
'differing in color, ftature and outward afpeft, which yet moft 
likely are of the fame fpecies. 
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