Flora londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnaeus and other authors, with a particular description of

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FLORA LONDINENSIS:

PLATES AND DESCRIPTION S

PLANT S

IN THE

EN VIRONS OF LONDON

PLANT

IN LATIN AND EN GLISH.

THEIR SEUERA L US ES,

BY WILLIAM CURTIS.

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THE FRIEND OF HUMANI TY,

THIS SE COND VOLUME

INSCRIBED,

wILLIAM CURTIS.

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GENERAL OBSERVATION S

THAT muel, os our mea lovi and pasture land may be rendered infinitely more valus hie than it is at present, by the introduction os me os our best grasses, is an opinion whicli has long prevalled among many os ille more enlightone agriculturi sis os the present age. And while sonio os these have endeavotiren to excite the lius hau man to eollese atideultivate see s os i his sort, hy virilings fraught Uith the sotindest reas ning j others have attempted to attract hi in by the offers of weli directed premiums . But, hi therio, netilier the writings of the one, however convincing, nor the premiumsos the ollier, hovever alluring, have been productive os the destred effect 1 Ray-Grassi stili continue to bo the o ly grassvitiose Redes ean be purelias ed sor the purpose os laying down mea ovi and pasture lanii; and liciis in adequate that grassis sor suel, a purposse, is knoMn to every intelligent sarmer. Why incleed the Alium per hΘ' mould originalty have been madetis eos, in presererice to ali the other grasses, cannot, perhaps, be satisfactori ly accounted sor: mcisi proh ahly 1t owesit; introduction to accident, or to iis being a common grassi vitiose seeds were ea saly collecteti, rather than to it heing preserredhom an investigation os iis meriis compared Uith the othera: however this may he, there appears to he no reascin sorexeluding the others, sor it Mould appear exceedingly improbable that os upviards of a hundred grasses' pro ing vii ld in iliis country, the Author os Nature should have created one only as sultable to he cultiva ted sor passurage or sodder Tining it sor granted then, that there are oster grasses, superior in many respesis to the Rye Grasi, ibis question naturallyuiis es Eois comes it that they havst not kund their way into generat ulla ρ To this it may he answeredi improvenients in any selenee, hut more es pecialty agriculture, are som in their adu ces: and, perhaps, no classi os men adheres more pertinacioiisy to old practices thati the sarmer Tho Aisseulty os distinguis hing the grasses one hom another, has no docti proved one grand obstacloi many os these plant tire so much alike, stat the most discerning bolanist is osten sit a Jossi io know some of them aparti is sin how ea Gly may thelitisbanditian be detered si ora the arduo is tal. Thero is a nother eause which may have opera ted against their introduction e grasses, as Meli as other planis. have been frequently recommo ed, frona a partial and limited observation os them; by persons vilio ne ither hiaevi them .eli asboianist, or agricultu risis, or Ulio have recommended them, meret y to gaiti by the creduli ty os tho publie But perhaps, iste chies reason has been, that persons who might he expected to malle the improvemenis, have not had he means sair lv put into their hari s of ma Ling the experiment Whether the method Me have adopted oti this oeeason, reo he more successsul than those os cur predecessors, must be determined by the event. Fr in the numerous applications made io me hy a variety os gentiemen, scar grassi see s, it has appeared incumbent on me to do somethang whiel, might-ia iis there and reo der the public an essentiat servicei I Uim, at least, to put it into their power to deca de oti a marteruhieli has been long naitaled, and shom vhiel, I am sar Rona heing the only one that entertains the most sanguine liopes of iis proving a great nationes advantage The grasses recommended uill I am certain, do ali that otir natares grasin can dot ibey are siti os thos e whiel, constitute ilici bulk os our best pastures: most os them are early, ali os them are productive, and they are adapted io such solis and siluations as are propser sor me ad vis and pastures. But let no one expect them to persorm wonders et sori aster ali, they are hiat grasses, and. as such, a re liable to produceoreat or smali crops, according io particular seasons, Or to the fertilily or barrennes s os the soli on whieli ihey are solun

it proportIon os improvement.

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iater in the summer.

principalty occurs in molli mea dous, or on the e ges os .et ditet est it loves mois ure, and

Tu p 1. Poa trivialis. Ranunculus acris, Triticum repens, Agrostis atha. Tulls a. poa trivialis, Alope urus pratenss, Triticum repetas. Tun p a. poa trivialis, Agrostis alba. Tulls 4 poa trivialis, Triticum repens, Peucedanum Silaus. Tuns s. Poa trivialis, Alopecurus pratensis, Agrostis atha, AVena elatior, Triit eum repens