Description of Manure 
Plot Number 
Without Manure, 1856, and since. 
1867 1872 1877 
1862 | 1867 I 1872 I 1877 
Detailed results of Experiments at Rothamsted, illustrating the Domination of one Plant over another in the Mixed Herbage of Permanent Meadow Land. 
Appendix-Table XI.—Number of Species, and Quantities in lbs. per acre, of each Species, and each Group (Graminese, Leguminosss, and Miscellanese), in the total Mixed Herbage of each Plot, in each year of complete botanical separation, 1862, 1867, 1872, and 1877. 
1862 1867 1872 1877 
Number of Species . . 
Botanical Names:— 
1. Anthoxanthum odoratum 
2. Alopecurus pratensis . 
3. Phleum pratense . . 
4. Agrostis vulgaris . . 
5. Aira csespitosa . . 
6. Holciis lanatUs . . 
7. A vena elatior . . . 
8. Avena pubescens . . 
9. Avena flavescens . . 
10. Poa pratensis . . . 
11. Poa trivialis . . . 
12. Briza media . . . 
13. Dactylis glomerata . 
14. Cynosurus cristatus . 
17. Festuca elatior 
18. Festuca loliacea . 
19. Bromus mollis. . 
20. Lolium perenne . 
18 15 17 17 16 16 17 16 15 15 18 
2155-0 2183-4 1128-8 1682-0 2480-3 1798-9 1434-5 1479-3 
.867 1872 1877 
1862 1867 1872 1877 
1862 1867 1872 1877 
1862 1867 1872 1877 
“Mixed Mineral Manure’’—Sulphates of Potass, Soda, and Magnesia., and Superphosphate of Lime. 
Ammonia-salts. 
1862 1867 1872 1877 
Alone, each year, 1856 
1862 1867 1872 1877 
1862 | 1867 | 1872 | 1877 
1862 | 1867 | 1872 | 1877 
Mineral Manures as Plot 8, 
and Ammonia-salts = 86 lbs. 
Nitrogen. 
1862 1867 1872 1877 
With Ammonia-salts 
= 172 lbs. Nitrogen; 
only 86 lbs. in 1859-60-61. 
1862 | 1867 |' -1872 | 1877 
1862 | 1867 j 1872 | 1877 
With Ammonia-salts = 86 lbs. Nitrogen and 
Cut Wheat Straw. 
1862 | 1867 | 1872 | 1877 
1862 | 1867 j 1872 j 1877 
1862 | 1867 | 1872 | 1877 
1862 | 1867 | 1872 j 1877 
Nitrate of Soda alone. 
= 86 lbs. Nitrogen. 
1862 I 1867 I 1872 | 1877 
= 43 lbs. Nitrogen. 
1862 1867 1872 1877 
Mineral Constituents 
and Nitrogen of 
1 nphHay. 
1867 1872 1877 
Superphos¬ 
phate, Nitrate 
Soda, and 
Sulphato 
Potass. 
Superphos¬ 
phate, and 
Nitrate 
Potass. 
.... Description of Manure. 
19 
20 
.... Plot Number. 
1872 I 1877 
1872 I 1877 
.... Seasons. 
Gramineous Herbage. 
17 18 18 16 15 
13 17 15 15 13 
14 17 14 18 16 17 17 17 17 .17 
13 14 16 13 16 15 15 15 15 13 
178-0 
11 14 14 13 11 14 16 15 14 14 14 15 
17 14 17 15 17 16 17 15 16 16 17 16 
18 14 16 16 15 16 
. Number of Species. 
Meadow Cat’s Tail 
Common Bent . . 
Tufted Hair-grass . 
Woolly Soft Grass . 
False Oat. . . . 
Downy Oat . . . 
Yellow Oat . . . 
Smooth Stalked Meadow 
Rough Stalked Meadow 
ooHyt: : : : 
Crested Dog’s Tail . 
Meado^Fescue’ 1 .' 
Tall Meadow Foscuo . 
Spiked Meadow FeBcue 
dltye . 
Leguminous Herbage. 
Number of Species 
1. Trifolium repens . . 
2. Trifolium pratense . 
3. Trifolium minus . . 
4. Trifolium procumbens 
5. Lotus comiculatus . 
6. Lotus major . . . 
7. Lathyrus pratensis . 
212-3 328-9 229‘0 16P9 
10-6 57-6 12-0 24-1 
12-5 3-2 44-6 282-1 
874-0 339-5 204- 
573-0 11-0 26-9 
Number of Species. 
White or Dutch Clover . 
Common Red Clover . . 
Lesser Clover .... 
Hop Trefoil. 
Bird’s Foot Trefoil . . 
Greater Bird’s Foot Trefoil 
Meadow Vetchling . . 
Al.rscK'LnAxEors Heebaqi:. 
Number of Species 
Caryophyllem, 
Hypericine® . 
m 
2 and 3. Ranunculus repei 
8 auricomus 
. Stellaria graminea . 
. . Cerastium triviale . 
8. Hypericum perforatum 
Umbelliferas . 
Rnbiacete . . |}|- 
11 . 
12 . 
.13. Spirsea Ulmaria . . . 
14. Conopodium denudatum 
15. Pimpinella Saxifraga 
16. Heracleum Sphondylium 
17. Anthriscus sylvcstris 
24. Achillea Millefolium 
25. Chrysanthemum Leuc 
26. Tragopogon 
Scrophularinem 
Lahiatte. . 
Primulacete 
Liliacete 
Filices 
Musci 
. Carex praecox . . 
. 44. Ophioglossum vulgatum 
("45. Hypnum squarrosum 
-< 46. Hypnum rutabulum. 
(.47. Hypnum hians . . 
Total . 
740-3 616-2 734-9 1165-3 
722-1 1226-0 440-8 
. Number ol Species. 
Upright Crowfoot or Buttercup 
Creeping and Bulbous Buttercup 
Goldilocks. 
Lesser Stichwort . . 
Greater Stichwort. . 
Mouse-ear Chiokweed 
Perforated St. John’s Woj 
C reeping Cinque Foi 
Barren Strawberry. 
Common Agrimony 
Common Burnet . 
Meadow Sweet . . 
Earth or Pig Nut . 
Burnet Saxifrage . 
Cow Parsnip or Hog? 
Bealtod Pai sley . 
Yellow Bed Straw . 
Cleavers or Goose Grass 
Field Scabious . . . 
Black Knapweed . . 
Creeping Plume Thistle 
Daisy. 
Autumnal Hawkbit . 
Dandelion .... 
Mouse-ear Hawkbit . 
Ribwort Plantain . . 
Germander Speedwell 
Thyme-leaved Speedwell 
Sorrel. 
Curled-leaved Dock . 
Bluebell. 
Star of Bethlehem. . 
Wood Rush .... 
Vernal Carex or Sedge 
Adder’s Tongue . . 
Mosses. 
526-2 Total. 
