Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from How to Know Grasses by the Leaves
A want has long been felt of some simple and attractive guide to the identification of the common pasture grasses by their leaves. Mr m'alpine has at length devised a means by which they can be definitely classified and presented to the student of nature, in such a way that no doubt is left as to the identity of any of our common grasses, at any season of the year. In practical experience it has long been felt that in determining the quality of a pasture, a judgment formed from the appearance of a field, when the grasses are in ?ower, is most unsatisfactory. If land is grazed, stock naturally eat the grasses they prefer, so that the best grasses are rarely permitted to run to seed to any extent, and they are, con sequently, liable to become less abundant, unless they are enabled to extend and perpetuate their species by lateral root budding. A tendency to this is fostered, even among annual grasses, when they are prevented from completing their natural cycle of life and coming to maturity in the one season. Inferior grasses, on the other hand, are neglected by stock.
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