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SPLENIC APOPLEXY. 
I first notice No. 30 on Mr. Bradleys farm at Sock. 
This meadow is on a gentle slope, the lower half of which is a 
poor swamp the upper portion sounder and with better 
herbage; the prevailing plants in the lower part are separated 
from those of the upper portion. It will be seen that the 
mass of the herbage in the flat is composed of the marsh 
thistle, sedges, and rushes, whilst the upper portion consists 
of grasses and clovers. 
Plants in No. 30 Socle. 
Botanical Name. 
Trivial Name. 
Proportionals. \ 
i 
Flat. 
Upland j 
Carduus arvensis 
Creeping thistle 
3 
„ palustris 
Marsh plume thistle 
10 
— 
Carices 
Sedges 
10 
-. 
Junci 
Rushes 
5 
— 
Ranunculus acris 
Upright buttercup 
5 
— 
„ bulbosus 
Bulbous „ 
— 
2 
Hordeum pratense 
Meadow wild barley 
3 
1 
Cynosurus cristatus 
Crested dogstail 
1 
2 
Aira caespitosa 
Tussac grass 
5 
— 
Arrhenatherum avenaceum 
Oat-like grass 
— 
2 
Lolium perenne 
Perennial rye-grass 
_ 
o 
O 
Pestuca duriuscula 
Hard fescue 
— 
3 
„ pratensis 
Meadow fescue 
— 
2 
Poa trivialis 
Rough-stalked meadow grass 
5 
3 
„ pratensis 
Smooth „ „ 
■— 
3 
Dactylis glomerata 
Cocksfoot 
— 
6 
Holcus lanatus 
Woolly soft grass 
3 
3 
Arena flavescens 
Yellow oat-like glass 
1 
1 
Trifolium pratense 
Red clover 
1 
3 
„ medium 
Dutch clover 
1 
2 
(Enanthe pimpinelloides 
Water drop wort* 
1 
— 
Good herbage . 
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Taking this field as a whole, my conclusions are, that under¬ 
drainage and liberal treatment would tend to the removal of 
disease, as by such means the poorer sorts of meadow plants, 
including the poor grasses, would be discouraged and die out, 
whilst the better kinds would increase. 
That land of this kind is productive as arable was made 
manifest by the appearance of a fine crop of wheat in a field 
adjoining No. 30; still the peculiar nature of the stiff soil is 
* The repetition of this and other plants of old salt marshes in this 
district is very interesting 
