| Abstract: | In studying pasture composition it has been found that withcertain species the numbers of individual plants per samplequadrat followed the negative binomial distribution. Others,however, where the isolation of individuals is difficult, suchas grasses showing a creeping type of growth, did not appearto follow this distribution. Another method of pasture analysisis therefore required, and the paper describes an examinationof a pasture in Kenya by the Point Method described by Levyand Madden. It is suggested that for pastures less uniform thanthose normally found in Great Britain there should be a greaterdistance between the points of the apparatus for it to be efficient. |
