eb. 7. 
Feb. 21. 
Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society. 565 
Read a Description of a new British Grass, by Charles C. Babing- 
ton, Esq., M.A. F.L.S. 
Festuca (Sclerochloa) Borreri, panicula divaricata : ramis fructiferis 
adscendentibus patentibus, spiculis linearibus sub- 4-floris, flosculis 
liberis, glumis apiculatis obsoleté 5-nerviis, radice fibrosa. 
Differt a F. distante (Glyceria, Sm.) panicule ramis fructiferis 
adscendentibus, spiculis sub- 4-floris et glumá& corollinà apiculatá 
cum nervo dorsali ad apicem producto; a F. procumbente panicule 
ramis patentibus, spiculis dimidio minoribus, glumá corollinà api- 
culatà et caule erecto; a F. maritima (F. thalassina, Kunth) pani- 
cule ramis fructiferis patentibus, spiculis dimidio minoribus, foliis 
planis. 
I have named this plant in compliment to my friend William 
Borrer, Esq., by whom it has long been considered as a distinct spe- 
cies. It appears to be far from rare upon the sea-coast, but has been 
usually confounded with Glyceria distans of Sir J. E. Smith. I have 
gathered it at Harwich and in Canvey Island, Essex ; and Mr. Borrer 
informs me that he has observed it in various places on the coasts of 
Hampshire and Sussex. 
Mr. Iliff, F.L.S. exhibited a piece of an Oak, which was blown 
down in Windsor Park during the late storm, and which, on being 
split open, was found to contain the following letters and figures cut 
in the wood, and the impressions reversed on the layers subse- 
quently formed, ** W. B. 1670," 
