H9LCUS 5^7 



Oxonio invenimus, (Botart) Morison, Hist. Ox. iii. 200, 1699. The 

 specimen is in Herb. Oxf. 



2. Ock. Wootton Heath, Ray, 1. c. Aira flexuosa. Footpath going 



from Childswell Farm to Wootton Heath, Baxter in Walk. Fl. 

 Boar's Hill. Bagley Wood. 



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



Sulham, Tufnail. Care Common. Heath Wood. Bucklebury. 



4. Kennet. Peasemore, W. M. Rogers. Mortimer, Tufnail. Burgh- 



field. Aldermaston. Greenham. Hampstead Marshall. Wick- 

 ham. Snelsmore. Tilcombe Green. 



5. Loddon. Sonning Cutting, Tufnail. Bagshot, Stillingjleet. Am- 



barrow. Finehampstead. Risely. Farley Hill. Bracknell. 

 Wokingham. Ascot. Sunninghill. Easthampstead. Swinley. 

 Coleman's Moor. Bear Wood. Windsor Park. Warren Row 

 Common. 

 In the neighbourhood of Ascot, and in some localities near Newbury, 

 I have noticed a form with pale greenish and more silvery spikelets, 

 /. argentea ; this may possibly be A. patens, Boreau. 

 D. /lexuosa is found in all the bordering counties. 



HOLCUS, Linn. Gen. n. 1015 (Sorgum, Mich.). 



H. mollis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1485 (1762). Syst. ed. 10, 1305 (1759). 



Creeping Soft Grass. 



Gramen miliuceum aristatiim moUe, Pet. Cone. Gr. 125 in Ray, Syn. 404. 



Top. Bot. 483. Syme, E. B. xi. 83, t. 1743. Nyman, 809. Fl. Oxf. 338. 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods, heaths, &c. Locally common, but much 



scarcer than the following species. P. June -July. 

 First record. Holcus mollis, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Cumnor. Appleton. Faringdon. Wytham. 



2. Ock. Marcham, Walker. Denchworth, Wait. Common in dry 



meadows at Blewbury, Lousley, Russell's Cat. Shippon. Boar's 

 Hill. Wittenham. Cothill. Common in Wittenham Wood. 



3. Pang. ' In dry meadows, Hampstead Norris,' Lousley [probably 



H. lanatusl. Tidmarsh, Tufnail. Cold Ash Common. Grims- 

 bury Castle. Bucklebury. Fence Wood, abundant. Frilsham. 



4. Kennet. Brimpton. Ufton. Inkpen. Wickham. Burghfield. 



Mortimer. 



5. Loddon. Early. Coleman's Moor, plentiful in some woods near 



Long Moor. Bagshot. Ambarrow. Risely. Finehampstead. 

 Farley Hill. Abundant in Windsor Great Park. Sandhurst. 

 Parnell describes a variety biaristata which has two awns, but 

 I have not met with it. Mr. Bruce showed me a viviparous form near 

 Wellington College. 



Holcus mollis is found in all the bordering counties. 



