30 B. A, PRYOR NOTES ON A rROPOSED 



Calamafjrostis Epigeios. — Copse by the south entrance of the 

 Watford Railway Tunnel. 



Afjrostis ca7iina. — Chorley Wood Common ; and just beyond our 

 limits on Btanmore Heath ; also on Harrow Weald Common in 

 company with A. jmmila. 



Aira Jlexuosa. — Woods by Pinner Lane ; J^ewland's Wood ; as 

 also in the adjoining district of Middlesex. 



Molinia coerulea. — With the last in Newland's Wood. 



Catahrosa aquatica. — By the Colne, near Bricket Wood. 



Glyceria plicata. — North of Harefield. Perhaps in Herts, but 

 the plant is pi'obably pedicillata. It has been suggested that 

 G.fluitans feu-fluitansj will probably turn out to be less common 

 in the county than either plicata or fedicillata, and the three forms 

 deserve a careful examination. 



Festuca sciuroides. — Watford. The station requires more precise 

 definition. 



F. ovina. — Chorley Wood Common. This andi^. duriuscula stand 

 in need of further observation ; both however occur in the neigh- 

 bouring district of Middlesex. 



F. eiatior. — Rickmansworth. In the original record, however, 

 Mr. Coleman has added a MS. note, " Probably large pratensis." 

 The two species are not always easy to discriminate. 



Bromus ereetus. — Under Stocker's Wood, Rickmansworth. 



B. commutatus. — Rickmansworth. This and racemosus require 

 further examination in all the recorded stations. 



Triticum caninum. — Rickmansworth. This is not, in my ex- 

 perience, so common in the county as the Flora would lead one 

 to suppose, and I suspect that a variety of T. repeyis, with longer 

 awns, has been in some cases mistaken for it. The true plant 

 occurs near Harefield. 



Hordeum sykaticum. — Long Spring, Watford ; Hill Wood ; and 

 near Stocker's Farm, Rickmansworth. 



Nardus stricta. — Bacher Heath. 



Lomaria Spicant. — Newland's Wood ; Bacher Heath. Recorded 

 also from Jiushey Heath, but the station has been ascertained 

 to be in Middlesex. 



Anplenium Rida-muraria. — Wall by Moor Park. The only station 

 known to me in the district. 



Athyrium Filix-fcemina.— 'Berry Grove, Aldenham ; Cashiobury 

 Park, near Rouse Bam. A. rhceticum will probably turn out to 

 be the commoner form, but I have seen incisum in the county. 



Scolopendn'um vulgare. — Gerarde describes "a kind of feme," 

 pr()I)iil)ly a young state of this species, which is "called likewise 

 Uemionitift dcrilis, which is a very small and base herbe, not above 

 a finger high, having fower or five small leaves of the same sub- 

 stance and colour, spotted on the back part, and in taste like Harts 

 toong ; but the leaves beare the shape of them of Tota Bona, or 

 good Hcurie, which many of our Apothecaries do abusively take 

 for Mercury. The roots are very smooth, black, and threddie, 

 having neither stalk, llower, nor seede. This plant my very good 



