474 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Glyceria fluitans E. Br. Prod. 179 (1810). 1597. "Flote 

 Grasse . . . growes everywhere in waters." — Ger. 13. 



G. plicata Fries, Mant. iii. 176 (1842). 1845. Distinguished 

 from last species by Messrs. T. Moore and C. C. Babington in Ann. 

 N. H. xvi. 232. — E. B. 1520 (" Poa fluitans'') represents this species. 



G. aquatica Wahlb. Fl. Gothob. 18 (1820). 1597. "In 

 fennie and watery places." — Ger. 6. 



G. maritima Wahlb. Fl. Gothob. 17 (1820). 1688. " Gra- 

 men paniculatuni maritimum vulgatissimum. In palustribus inari- 

 timis ubique frequentissimiim est." — Ray Hist. 1286. 



G. distans Wahlenb. Fl. Upsal. 36 (1820). 1778. " Prope Ex- 

 mouth, circa Northfleet," &c. — Huds. ed. ii. 34 (Poa aquatica var.). 



G. Borreri Bab. in E. B. Suppl. 2797 (1837). 1837. " Ga- 

 thered by Mr. Borrer at Gosport" (Hants), and elsewhere. — E. B. 

 Suppl. I. c. 



Festuca procumbens Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 129, ex En. i. 

 393 (1833). c. 1794. Gathered by Curtis in 1793 at the foot of 

 St. Vincent's Rock, Bristol. — Curtis, Fl. Lond. vi. 11. {"Poa 

 procu))ibens.'") 



F. rigida Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 129, ex En. i. 393 (1833). 

 1597. " Gramen minus duriusculum. In moist fresh marrishes." 

 Ger. 4 ; and Johns. Merc. Bot. p. 39 (1634). 



F. rottboellioides Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 129, ex En. i. 395 

 (1833). Sderochlua loliacea Woods. 1688. " This was shewn 

 me by Mr. Newton who found it at Bare about a mile from Lan- 

 caster, as also nigh the Saltpans about a mile from Whithaven 

 Cumberland, at Bright-Helmston in Sussex, & alibi in maritimis." 

 — Ray Fascic. 11. 



F. uniglumis Soland. ap. Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 108 (1789). 1716. 

 "Festuca sterilis humilima spica unam partem spectante. . . . 

 Found by Mr. Dale in Mersey-Isle near Colchester." — Petiver, 

 Cone. Gram. no. 101. 



F. ambigua Le Gall, Fl. Morbihan, 731 (1852). 1856. " On 

 the Dover, Ryde, 1839" {'' F. uniglumis ^.").— Bromfield, Fl. Vec- 

 tensis, 606. See Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 189. 



F. myurus L. Sp. PI. 74 (1753). 1633. " Found by Mr. 

 Goody er upon the wals of the antient city of Winchester." — Ger. 

 em. 30. 



F. sciuroides Roth, Tent. ii. 130 (1787). 1670. "Gramen 

 paniculatuni bromoides minus paniculis aristatis unam partem 

 spectantibus. In marginibus herbosis, et ad sepes." — Ray Cat. 154. 



F. ovina L. Sp. PI. 73 (1753). 1688. " Gramen capillaceum 

 locustellis pinnatis non aristatis. . . . Observavit et ad me attulit 

 D. Dale." — Ray Hist. ii. 1288. " Invenimus etiam inter plantas 

 nostras siccas olim collectas." — Ray Syn. ii. 260. 



F. rubra L. Sp. PI. 74 (1753). 1762. " Habitat in pascuis 

 siccis." — Huds. ed. i. 36. ". . . in comitatu Westmorlandico." — 

 Huds. ed. ii. 45. 



F. fallax Thuill. Fl. Par. ed. 2, 50 ( 1799). F. duriuscula, Linn. 

 1670. " Gramen pratense panicula sparsa versus unam partem, 

 duriore." — Ray Cat. 153. 



