560 GRAMINACEAE 



First record. A. setacea, Mr. H. C. Watson in the New Bot Guide, 1835. 



4. Kennet. Mortimer Common, Tufnail, 1891. In some quantity 



over a limited area. 



5. Loddon. Bagsbot Heath, Watson. Sunninghill. Near Sandhurst. 



Between Sandhurst and Swinley Park very fine specimens. 

 Easthampstead Plain. 

 In dry sunny weather the panicle opens in a beautiful manner. 

 A. setacea is recorded for Surrey, Hants, and Wiltshire. It is 

 certainly absent from Oxfordshire. 



A. canina, Linn. Sp. PI. 62 (1753), and Herb. 



A. vinealis, With. Bot. Arr. ed. 3, ii. 127 (1796). Gramen caninum 

 supinum paniciilatum dulce, C. B. Pin. i. 



Top. Bot. 478. Syme, E. B. xi. 46, t. 1718. Nyman, 801. Fl. Oxf. 337. 

 Native. Ericetal. Heaths, dry sandy fields, rough pastures, and 

 heathy woods. Local, but common where it occurs. P. July- Aug. 

 First record. Mr. Baxter's MSS. 1832. 



2. Ock. Wootton Heath, Baxter, see Fl. Oxf. 1886. Frilford. 



3. Pang. Fence Wood, W. M. Rogers. Cold Ash Common. Oare. 



Hermitage. Bucklebury. 



4. Kennet. Snelsmore Common, W. M. Rogers. Mortimer, Tufnail. 



Aldermaston. Burghfleld. Padworth. Newbury Wash Common. 

 Greenham Common. Inkpen. Wickham. 



5. Loddon. Bulmarsh, Tufnail. Early. Farley Hill. Ambarrow. 



Risely. Finchampstead. Wokingbam. Bracknell. Binfield. 

 Bearwood. Broadmoor. Bagsbot. Long Moor. Sandhurst. 

 Easthampstead. Sunninghill. Ascot. Windsor Park. 



Very common over the heathy tract, presenting several modifications. 

 The typical plant is awned, but awnless forms are not rare ; these are 

 var. MUTicA, of which robust forms occur near Wild Moor Bottom. 



The panicles vary in colour in these different forms. The type 

 has panicles which are reddish brown (the A. rubra, DC. Fl. Fr. iii. 19, 

 not of Linn.), or when growing in shady situations the panicle is some- 

 times of a greenish white {A. pallida, Schk. Handb. 3, not of DC. 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. i. f. 129), which I have seen in Fence 

 Wood, Mortimer, &c. ; the plant with yellowish panicles is'^. varians, 

 Thuill. Fl. Par. ii. 35, according to Grenier and Godron. 



In damp heathy spots about Finchampstead, Owls Moor, &c. , a form 

 is found which in habit in some way reminds one of Deschampsia dis- 

 color, the long capillary leaves being somewhat glaucous. In some cases 

 the culms of ^. canina are decimibent and root on the lower joints ; this 

 state is to be seen by the railway near Wellington College Station, on 

 Wild Moor, &c. A tall woodland, awnless form is var. eJata, Brebisson, 

 Fl. Normandie, 366. 



A. canina is recoi'ded for all the bordering counties. * 



