FIEST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 3G5 



umberland besydc Ceton Dalavalo, and ther they make hattes of it." 

 — Turn. ii. 144, back. 



A. baltica Link, Hovt. Berol. i. 105 (1821). 1872. Found in 

 1871 by Mr. W. Richardson, of Ahiwick, on Ross Links, near Bel- 

 ford, INorthnmberland.— Journ. Bot. 1872, 21, 353. 



Aira caryophyllea L. Sp. PL 6G (1753). 1605 ? "Gramen 

 neinorale Avenaceum alteruni . . . Hoc idem Gramen aridis colli- 

 bus theriotrophio Regije Grynwicht [Greenwich] Anglo-britannitB 

 viciuis elapsis annis coUegi." — Lobel, Adversaria, pars alt. 465. 

 1660. " Gramen montanum panicula spadicea delicatiore." In 

 Cambs.— R. C. C. 69. 



A. prsecox L. Sp. PI. 55 (1753). 1670. " Gr. parvum prtBCox 

 spica laxa canescente. In glareosis et sterdioribus plerumque 

 nascitur." — Ray Cat. 153. "Harefield Common." — Blackst. Fasc. 

 38 (1737). 



Corynephorus canescens Beauv. Agrost. 90 (1812). 1655. 

 " Hoc gramen radice capillata crassiore maritimis litoreis Kanti^c 

 oritur." — Lobel, Iliustr. 8. "Lobel first discovered this on the 

 Coast of Kent, and Mr. Buddie since him, in Suffolk." — Petiver, 

 Cone. Gram. no. 126 (1716). 



Deschampsia csespitosa Beauv. Agrost. 91 (1812). 1640. 

 " Gramen segetum panicula speciosa ... In the borders of corne 

 fields," &c.— Park. Theatr. 1159. [" Gr. segetale," Ger. 5 (1597), 

 is probably this.] See Pet. Cone. Gram. 114, 



D. alpina Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 686 (1817). 1810. "Mr. 

 George Don .... found it on the high mountains of Clova in 

 Angusshire." — E. B. 2102 ("Aira laevigata"). 



D. discolor Roem. & Schult. Sybt. ii. 686 (1817). Aira nli- 

 r/tH0AY( Weihe. 1762. "In ericeto Strattoniensi in comitatu Nor- 

 folk. D. Stillingdeet roperit." — Huds. ed. 1, 30 ("Aira setacea"). 



D. flexuosa Trin. Bull. Sc. Acad. Petersb. i. QQ (1836). 1696. 

 "A D. Doodio observatum & nobis ostensum est." — -Ray Syn. ii. 

 258, 12. 



Holcus mollis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1485 (1762). 1688. "Gramen 

 caninum paniculatum molle."- — Ray Hist. ii. 1285. 



H. lanatus L. Sp. PI. 1048 (1753). 1634. "Gramen pratense 



paniculatum molle, Bauh." — Johns. Merc. Bot. 38. Cf. Ger. em. 30*. 



Trisetum pratense Pers. Syn. i. 97 (1805). 1670. "Gramen 



avenaceum panicula flavesceute locustis parvis. ... in pratis & 



pascuis." — Ray Cat. 141. 



Avena pubescens Huds. ed. 1, 42 (1762). 1688. " In pascuis 

 circa aedes Comitis Cardigani^e ad TAvitnam Middlesexire vicum." — 

 Ray Hist. ii. 1910. 



A. pratensis L. Sp. Pi. 80 (1753). 1688. "Gramen aven- 

 aceum montanum spica simplici aristis recurvis ... In summis 

 tumulis seu colliculis Bartloviensibus manu quoddam aggestis, in 

 ipso limite agri Essexiensis versus Cantabrigiam inventum ad nos 

 attulit I). Dale."— Ray Hist. ii. 1290. 



A. fatua L. Sp. PI. 80 (1753). 1576. " .Egylops Bromoides 

 Belgarum. In Auglia . . . inter hordeum et secale nonuusquam 

 occurrit." — Lob. Obs. 21. 



(To be continued.) 



