3 S 6 observations on grasses. 
Genus the fifteenth. Purple FESCUE. Tab. gd 
ADDIT ION. T his grafs i have always found 
along with the fine BENT and filver HAIR- 
GRASS, particularly on Banftead Downs in 
great plenty in a place inclofe.d in order to keep the 
fiheep out. From hence i am inclined to think that 
' this is the chief grafs all over the Downs, but as the 
flowering ftems in the other parts were intirely 
gone , unlefs along the hedges, i could not be certain. 
Flote FESCUE. Tab. 10. 
I have no knowledge of the qualities of this 
grafs from my own experience, but fhall quote 
fome thing concerning it out of a piece publifli- 
ed in the Amasn.Academ. vol. 3. entitled Plants 
Efculents. The author fays there, artic. 90. 
that the feeds of this grafs are gathered yearly 
in Poland, and from thence carried into Ger- 
many and fometimes into Sweden, and fold un- 
der the name of manna feeds. Thefe are much 
ufed at the tables of the great on account of 
their nourifhing quality and agreeable taile. 
It is wonderfuil, adds the author, that among (1 
us thefe feeds have hitherto been negledted, 
fince they are fo eafily collected and cleanfed. 
ADDITION; Mr. Dean , a very fenftble 
farmer at Rufcomb , Berkfhire , affured me that a 
field always lying under water of about four acres , 
that 
