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SPLENIC APOPLEXY. 
Plants in Meadow near the Victoria. 
Botanical Name. 
Trivial Name. 
Proportionals. 
Ranunculus acris 
Upright crowfoot 
10 
Aira csespitosa* 
Tussac grass 
5 
Cynosurus cristatus 
Crested dogstail 
5 
Hordeura pratense 
Meadow wild barley' 
3 
IIolcus lanatus 
Woolly soft grass 
2 
Alopecurus pratensis 
Meadow foxtail 
3 
Lolium perenne 
Perennial rye grass 
3 
Anthoxanthum odoratum 
Sweet vernal "rass 
3 
Festuca pratensis 
Meadow fescue 
2 
Avena fiavescens 
Yellow oat grass 
1 
Trifolium 
Trefoils 
4 
Good herbage . 
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This field I should have expected would be free from dis¬ 
eases ; and I have no hesitation in affirming that, in no case 
of what was described as ci diseased ground,” did I find any 
thing like the quantity of the last six plants in the above list. 
Beyond the above field is a large tract of ground, which is 
flat and marshy; here occurs a field divided into three parts, 
in the occupation of Mr. Wake. 
These three parts were described as varying in their power 
to produce disease. 
The whole hundred acres were tolerably free from good 
grasses; these, however, were more plentiful in the higher 
part, which had been more often manured because it pays 
better,” and here there has not been so much disease. 
It should be noted that in one part of the field described as 
sound , and certainly dry on the occasion of my visit, I yet 
observed a considerable quantity of Alopecurus geniculatus 
( t floating (\) foxtail), a plant which sufficiently indicates that wet 
prevails over the greater part of the year. Here one does 
not wonder that there should be disease. 
It now remains to notice Mr. Look’s meadows, which I 
shall first do in the order in which I saw them, commenting 
more particularly upon them afterwards. 
First we went through some sound pastures, in which good 
grasses abounded. In them there had been no disease. 
* In this instance the tussac grass was diffused with the rest of the 
herbage, not in bull pates, as it occurs in wet or stagnant spots. 
