234 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



yards of Thurso Bridge, and up four or five miles, this year, 

 and for a number of years back." 



This brings the history of the grass to the present 

 summer. I now give the principal references to it, and 

 figures of it in British works : 



SINCLAIR, " Hort. Gram. Wob.," p. 167 (plate 14), 1825. 



" ENG. Box. SUPPL." tab. 2641, May i, 1830. 



BAXTER, "Brit. Phan. PI.," vol. ii. p. 148, tab. 148, 1835. 



MURRAY, A., "The Northern Flora," p. 57, 1836. 



PARNELL, " Grasses of Scotland," tab. 31, p. 72, 1842. 



" PHYTOLOGIST," 1842, pp. 426, 462 ; 1843, p. 491 ; 1855, p. 117 ; 



!S57, p. 36. 



GARDINER, " Flora of Forfarshire," p. 199, 1848. 

 WATSON, H. C, "Cyb. Brit.," iii. p. 153, 1852. 

 LINNEAN SOCIETY'S "PROC.," 1855, ii. p. 374. 

 LOWE, "Nat. Hist. Brit. Grasses," p. 91, tab. 293, 1858. 

 IRVINE, A., "111. Handb. Brit. PL," p. 197, 1858. 

 SOWERBY, "Grasses of Great Britain," p. 57, tab. 48, 1861. 

 BENTHAM, "Handb.," illust. ed., p. 949, f. 1148, 1865. 

 SYME, " Eng. Bot.," ed. 3, vol. xi. p. 16, tab. 1695, 1872. 

 " SCIENCE GOSSIP," 1873, p. 139 ; : S75>P- 177, with figs. 232, 262 ; 



1876, pp. 42, 162, 278; 1877, P- 44- 

 SMILES, "Life of Robert Dick," pp 73, 255, 344, 1878. 

 DRUCE, "Scot. Nat.," 1884, p. 268. 

 BENNETT, A., in "Scot. Nat.," 1888, p. 89. 

 "ANN. SCOT. NAT. HIST.," July 1899, p. 185. 

 "JouRN. BOT.," 1899, p. 328. 



Among others, the following names are given under the 

 species by Richter in "PI. Europ.," p. 31, 1890 : 



Holcus odoratus, L., " Sp. PL," ed. i, p. 1048, 1753. 

 Poa nitens, Weber, " Fl. Hoist." supp., n. 6, 1787. 

 Avena odorata, Persoon, " Syn.," i. p. 100, 1805. 

 HoLus borealis, Schrad., " Fl. Germ.," i. p. 252, 1806. 

 Hierochloa repens, Pal. Beauv., " Agrost," p. 62, 1812. 

 Hierochloe borealis, R. et S., "Syst.," ii. p. 513, 1817. 

 Hierochloa odorata, Wahlb., " Fl. Ups.," p. 32, 1820. 



Hartmann, "Hand. Sk. FL," ed. n, p. 529, 1879, gi ves one 

 subspecies and two varieties : 



/3 microstaehya, I.e. ed. 5, p. 308, 1849. 



y firma, F. NyL, " Sp. Fl. Fenn.," ii. p. i, 1844; and 

 H. fragrans, R. et S. "Syst.," ii. p. 513, 1817. 



