548 BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
A partial analysis of the seeds of Carex stricta that fell from sam- 
ple No. 1 (page 344) during the process of drying, gave the following 
results. 100 parts of the air-dried seeds contained — 
Water amen ks on heating to 110° C. ) 0 0 oe 
Nitrogen. . Png ee 8 Be o 0 ee Oe ee 
Albuminoids’’ s.r RL OS, er 
C. Awnatyses or HAy rrom THE Common Rusu, THE FLOWERING 
Fern, Burrercurs, Witt WEED, AND THE BracuH PEA. 
In connection with the foregoing experiments on grasses and sedges, 
analyses have been made of hays from several other plants, which have 
a certain interest and value as forage, of the same general kind as that 
which attaches to the bog and marsh hays, properly so called. 
6. A sample of hay of the Common or Soft Rush (/uneus effusas) 
from Rochester, Mass, crop of 1874, probably mown in August. The 
sample was taken from a bunch of carex, with which it had been cut. 
7. Hay of the great Flowering Fern ( Osmunda regalis) from Mr. 
Obed Clifton, Marion, Mass., crop of 1874, Grown on a wet meadow. 
The plant is commonly called “ Mount Royal” in that part of the 
State where the sample was obtained. 
Some farmers esteem the flowering fern as a plant of considerable 
value for foddering purposes. Compare, for example, the following 
extract from the Report of Committee on Sheep in the “ Transactions 
of the Essex County Agricultural Society ” for 1860, page 56: — 
‘‘ We think that we are favorably situated in this county for raising 
lambs for early market. Sheep are fond of salt hay and the coarse 
grasses that grow upon our fresh meadows, particularly the Osmunda 
spectebilis, or buckhorn. By giving them a small quantity of beans or 
corn daily, they can be wintered well ; and, if the lambs are sold early, they 
will recruit before winter, even if they are required to feed our pastures 
closely.”’ 
8. Hay of Buttercups (Ranunculus acris), from plants that were 
gathered by hand June 16, 1873, upon a rather shady hillside in 
Jamaica Plain. The soil upon which the plants grew was poor and 
cold. The plants were passing out of flower when \ gathered, but no 
seeds were ready to drop; they were dried in a loft, and kept in a 
paper bag until analyzed in the winter of 1874-75. As is well known, 
