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Identifier: britishgrassesse00prat (find matches)
Title: The British grasses and sedges
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893
Subjects: Botany Grasses
Publisher: London, Society for promoting Christian knowledge
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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ing affectedby the smallest change in the atmosphere. This grassis so hke the cultivated oat, A. sativa, that some thinkit is but a variety of that plant, from which it is distin-guished by its longer awns, and by the stiff hairs at thebase of the glumella. Professor Buckman, however,remarks that it is approached in the latter respect byoccasional starved or seeded specimens of the field oat,in which the hairs occur. This circumstance, he ob-serves, gives some countenance to the belief so generalamong the farmers of the heavy lias clays, in the Valeof Gloucester, namely, that it is unsafe for them tocultivate oats because they leave behind a degeneratedrace of wild oats. At any rate it is a troublesomeweed, especially in stiff sterile lands. It is common infields of this kind, either of wheat, barley, or oats, as wellas amoBg beans ; and its blades being in its early growthso like those of corn, it cannot in the corn-field be dis-tinguished, and is therefore left behind, after hoeing.
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  • bookdecade:1850
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Pratt__Anne__1806_1893
  • booksubject:Botany
  • booksubject:Grasses
  • bookpublisher:London__Society_for_promoting_Christian_knowledge
  • bookcontributor:University_of_British_Columbia_Library
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