FIRST KECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 475 



P. sylvatica Vill. Dauph. ii. 105 (1786). 1800. " In a moist 

 wooded valley at the foot of Ben Lawers, 1793, Mr. Mackay." — Sm. 

 Fl. Brit. i. 121. (" F. cnlamaria.") 



F. pratensis Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. i. 37 (1762). 1670. "Gra- 

 men paniculatum elatius, paniculis seu spicis muticis squamosis. . . . 

 In pratis." — Ray Cat. 153. 



F. arundinacea Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. 57 (1771), (i''. elatior, 

 Auct. Angl.). 1688. " a D. Sam. Doody . . . ad ripas Thamesis 

 fluvii inter Loudinum et Chelseiam observatum ad nos siccumtrans- 

 missum est." — Ray Hist. ii. 1909. 



Bromus giganteus L. Sp. PI. 77 (1753). 1688. " Fulliamije 

 prope Londinnm, in aggere inter locum excensionis e cymbis & 

 Episcopale palatium a D. Doody observatum ostensum & ad nos 

 transmissum est." — Ray Hist. ii. 1909. 



B. ramosus Huds. i. 40 (1762), B. asper Murr. (1772). 1634. 

 " Gramen avenaceum lanuginosum glumis rarioribus longis. Hairy 

 Haver-grasse." — Johns. Merc. Bot. 40. 



B. erectus Huds. i. 39 (1762). 1690. " Festuca Avenacea 

 sterilis spicis erectis. In the hedges beyond Botley near Oxford " 

 (Bobart).— Ray Syn. i. 237. 



B. madritensis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 114 (1762). 1778. "In 

 muris antiquis ; circa Londinum et Oxonium." — Huds. ed. ii. 50. 

 " Near Battersea Church " [B. diandrus). — Curtis, Fl. Lond. vi. t. 5 

 (1794). 



B. sterilis L. Sp. PL 77 (1753). 1597. " Bromos sterilis."— 

 Ger. 69. 



B. mollis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 112 (1762). 1641. "Gramen 

 Bromoides vernum spicis erectis. Early meadow Drauk, or Darnell- 

 grasse." — Johns. Merc. Bot. pars alt. 22. 



Brachypodium sylvaticum Roem. et Schult. Syst. ii. 741 

 (1817). 1629. "Gram. spicaeBrizte mains Bauh." — Johns. Eric. 



B. pinnatum Beauv. Agr. 101 (1812). — 1696. "In copses 

 and hedges common enough about Oxford, D. Bobart." — Ray Syn. 

 ii. 248. 



Lolium perenne L. Sp. PI. 83 (1753). 1548. " Phenix 

 Dioscoridis . . . called in Cabrigshire Way bent." — Turn. Names 

 D V. back. Compare Turn. Herb. ii. 17. 



L. temulentum L. Sp. PI. 83 (1753). 1548. " Lolium . . . 

 Darnell groweth amonge the corne and the corne goeth out of kynde 

 into Darnel." — Turn. Names, E ii. 



Triticum caninum L. Sp. PI. 86 (1753). 1690. "Gramen 

 caninum aristatum radice non repente sylvaticum. Found plenti- 

 fully growing in Stoken-Church Woods" (Bobart). — Ray Syn. 

 i. 235. 



T. repens L. Sp. PI. 86 (1753). 1597. " In gardens and 

 arable grounds as an infirmitie and plague." — Ger. 22. 



T. pungens Pers. Syn. i. 109 (1805). 1860. " Sea-shores, 

 common." — Babington in Fl. Cambs. p. 310. 



T. acutum DC. Bot. Gall. 529 (1828). 1856. " Sandy sea- 

 sliores, probably not rare." — Bab. Man. ed. 4,412 {T. laxum) ; cf. 

 Bab. Fl. Cambs. p. 310. 



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