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o. Amentaceous, consisting of a filiform, thread shaped receptacle, 
along which are disposed amentaceous squamae (scales) that form an 
amentum or catkin. 
6. Glumose , consisting of a filiform receptacle, the base of which 
is furnished with a common glum or husk. 
7. Spadiceous, when there is a receptacle common to many florets 
placed within aspatha or sheath, such a receptacle is called a spadix, 
and is either branched as in palms or simple. In this last case, the 
florets may he disposed either all round it as in colla, on the lower 
parts of it as in Arum, or on one side of it as in Zostera. 
ARTICLE XVIII. 
COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
NOTES FROM THE REPORTS OF THE BATH SOCIETY, 
FOR ENCOURAGEMENT OF 
Agriculture , Arts, Manufactures , and Commerce. 
1. Steeping Barley in a Dry Season. —The seed barley was 
soaked in the black water, taken from a reservoir which constantly 
receives the draining of the dung-heap and stables. The light float¬ 
ing corn was skimmed off the top, the rest stood twenty-four hours: 
when taken from the water, the seed grain was mixed with a suffi¬ 
cient quantity of sifted wood ashes, to make it spread regularly, and 
three fields were sown, beginning on the 16th, and finished on the 
23rd of April, 1783. The produce sixty bushes per acre of good 
clean barley, without any small or green corn, or weeds at harvest. 
Several other fields were sown with the same seed dry, and without 
any preparation, hut the crop was very poor, not more than twenty 
bushels per acre, and much mixed with green corn and weeds when 
harvested. Some of the seed was sown dry on one ridge of each of 
the former fields, hut the produce was very poor in comparison with 
other parts of the field. See Letter signed James Chappie, Bodmin, 
March 12th, 1784, vol. 3, p. 304. A note recommends general tri¬ 
als to be made both in wet and dry seasons. 
2. Turnip Seed. —When two or three years old, is found to with¬ 
stand the fly better than new seed, Vol. 3, p. 366. Vol. 4, p. 170, 
