364 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Eev. Mr. H. Davies."—Sm. Fl. Brit. i. 82 (1800). As to Lobel's 

 reported Essex locality (Lob. 111. 20), see Gibson's Fl. Essex, 3G0. 



Agrostis setacea Curtis, Fl. Lond. vi. 12 (1798). 1778. 

 " Supra Hall Down prope Exeter." — Huds. ed. 2, 31 {A. canina, 

 var. y.) 



A. canina L. Sp. PI. 62 (1753). 1762. "In pratis Immidis 

 frequens." — Huds. ed. 1, 26. 



A. alba L. Sp. PL 63 (1753). 1716. " Gramen miliaceum 

 majus panicula spadicea .... in dry hilly pastures." — -Petiver, 

 Cone. Gram. no. 118. 



A. vulgaris With. Bot. Arr. ed. 3, ii. 132 (1796). 1670. 

 " Gramen pratense vulgare spicil fere arundiuacea ... in pascuis 

 nihil vulgarius est hoc gramine."^ — Pvay Cat. 154. 



Polypogon monspeliensis Desf. Fl. Atl. i. 67 (1798). 1605. 

 " Piiguis herbidis Comitatus Zout-hamptoniae proxime salinas & 

 antiquas aedes Drayton vocatas . . . . cis mare duobus miliaribus 

 Anglicis a Portsmouth, ex adverse Vectis Insulte plurima; .... 

 Hunc quoque vdis [udis] fossis lacustribusq : Essexiensis comitatus 

 legi, juxta Thamesis amcenissima fiuenta."- — Lobel, Adversaria, pars 

 alt. 469. 



P. littoralis Sm. Comp. Fl. Brit. ed. 2, 13 (1816). 1641. 

 " Lagopus perpusillus supinus perelegans maritimus, provenit prope 

 castrum South- Sea Castle miliare Anglico a Portsmouth ad la^vam, 

 unciam vix ;^quans, nullibi antea vidi." — Johns. Merc. Bot. pars 

 alt. 24. 



Calamagrostis Epigejos Roth, Tent. i. 34 (1788). 1640. 

 " Eeede grasse of Saint Johns wood." — Park. Theatr. 1180. 



C. lanceolata Eoth, Tent. i. 34 (1788). 1716. " The first 

 discovery of this grass is owing to Mr. John Scampton a Curious 

 Botanist, who sent it me from Leicestershire." — Petiver, Cone. 

 Gram. n. 69. 



Gastridium australe Beauv. Agrost. 21 (1812). 1690. 

 " Gramen serotiuum arvense panicula coutractiore pyramidali . . . 

 Inter segetes locis prfecipue ubi aqufe aliquandiu stagnant." — 

 Ray Syn. i. 190. "About Thorndon, Essex. Mr. Hill."— Blackst. 

 Spec. 33 (1746). 



AperaSpica-ventiBeauv. Agrost. 31 (1812). 1632. "Agrorum 

 venti spica. Lob." — Johns. Kent, 30. 



A. interrupta Beauv. Agrost. 31 (1812). 1848. "Gathered 

 on June 9, 1848, near Thetford (Sufiblk), by the Rev. W. W. New- 

 bould."— Ann. Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. ii. 149. 



Deyeuxia strigosa Kunth, Rev. Gram. 77 (1829). 1885. 

 Found by Robert Dick at Loch Duran, in Caithness. — Journ. Bot. 

 1885, 253. 



D. neglecta Kunth, Rev. Gram. 76 (1829). 1810. "Dis- 

 covered by Mr. G. Don, in June, 1807, in a marsh called the 

 White Mire, a mile from Forfar." — E.B. 2160 ("Arundo stricta"). 



Ammophila arundinacea Host, Gram. Austr. iv. 24 (1809). 

 1562. " Spartum ... A kinde of sea bente or sea rishe whereof 

 the frciyles are made that figges and rasines are caried hether in out 

 of Spayne. The same bent or sea rishe have I sene in North- 



