AGROSTIS 559 



S. Pang. Unwell Wood, Lawson in Hexp. Oxf. Unusually abundant 

 in Streatley Wood, Tufnail. In the woods about Hampstead 

 Norris, Lousley. Ashridge Wood. Ashampstead. Tidmarsh. 

 Sulham. Basildon Wood. Withy Coppice. Heath Wood. 

 Yattendon. Wood near Langley. 



4. Kennet. Peasemore, W. M. Rogers. Shaw Dean, Weaver. Cat- 



more. Hodcott. West Usley. Brimpton. Riever Wood. 

 Kintbury. Tilcombe Wood. 



5. Loddon. Common in the woods about Marlow, Mill. Wood near 



Wargrave. Ashley Hill Wood. Bowsey Hill Wood. Quarry 

 Wood, &c. Bisham Wood. Knowl Hill Wood. 

 Milium effusiim, which is one of our most graceful species, is recorded 

 for all the bordering counties. 



PHLEUM, Linn. Gen. n. 71. 



P. pratense, Linn. Sp. PI. 59 (1753), and Herb. Timothy Grass, 



Common Catstail Grass. 

 Top. Bot. 473. Syme, E. B. xi. 32, t. 1706. Nyman, 792. Fl. Oxf. 323. 

 Native. Pascual. Meadows, pastures, roadsides, chalk downs, &c. 



Common in all the districts. P. June-October. 

 First record. Near Oxford, Sir Joseph Banks in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1760 

 [one of the specimens is ergotized]. P. pratense and P. nodosum [the 

 latter] perhaps a variety. Dr. Noehden. Not very grateful to 

 animals, Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. With Hysterium gramineum, Pers. 

 on it about Oxford, Baxter, Phaen. Bot. 68, 1834. 

 Var. NODOSUM (Linn. Syst. ed. 10, 871 and Herb, as a species), Syme, 

 E. B. xi. 32, t. 1707. Not uncommon in dry situations, as near Cothill, 

 at Hermitage, near Aldermaston, Sonning, Bray, Kingston Bagpuze, 

 East Ilsley, Wantage, Lambourn, T^vyford, Cold Ash, Hungerford, 

 Newbury, &c. The spikes are shorter and more tapering at both ends 

 than those of typical Phleum pratense. 



Among grain crops a very luxuriant form is found, as at Tilehurst, 

 &c., probably the var. macrochaeton, Doell, Rhein. Fl. 118. A viviparous 

 form was brought to me by Mr. Rose in the wet autumn of 1896. 

 Phleum prateyise is found in all the bordering counties. 



AGROSTIS, Linn. Gen. n. 74. 

 A. setacea, Curt. Fl. Lond. vi. t. 12 (1798), not of Villars. 



A. aurea, Hall. 1498, in Linn. Herb. 

 Top. Bot. 478. Syme, E. B. xi. 45, t. 1717. Nyman, 801. Fl. Oxf. 337. 

 Native. Ericetah Heathy ground. Very local, but common over 

 limited areas which appear to be restricted to the Bagshot Sands. 

 P. July- August. 



