570 GRAMINACEAE 



Marsliall. Laiiibourn. West Ilsley. Hodcott. Gibbet Hill. 

 Walbury Camp, common. 

 A. pratensis is found in all the bordering counties. 



*A, sTKiGOSA, Schreber, Spic. Fl. Lips. 52 (1771). Black Oat. 



Cyb. Br. iii. 184. Syme, E. B. xi. 77, t. 1740. Nyman, 810. Fl. Oxf. 339. 

 Alien. Cornfields. Scattered in small quantity through the county ; occur- 

 ring in crops which vary from year to year, but not of constant 

 occurrence. A. June- July. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1880. 



1. Isis. Fields near Wytham, Cumn or, Faringdon. Bourton. 2. Ock. 

 Kennington. Wootton. Wantage. Uffington. 3. Pang. Tile- 



hurst, Tufnail. Bradfield. Basildon. Englefield. 4. Kennet. 



Theale. Midgham. Inkpen. Sulhampstead. o. Loddon. Bin- 



field. Clewer. Hurley. Sonning. 



' Everywhere,' Wellington Coll. List. By this probably Arrhenatherum was 

 intended. 



A. strigosa is recorded for the counties of Oxford, Surrey, Wilts. I have 

 seen it in Bucks near Fenny Stratford. 



*A. fatua, Linn. Sp. PI. 80 (1753), and Herb. p. max. p. Wild Oat, Haver. 

 Top, Bot. 480. Syme, E. B. xi. 79, t. 1741. Nyman, 810. Fl. Oxf. 339. 

 Colonist. Agrestal. Cultivated fields. Not uncommon. A. June- 

 August. 

 First record. Windsor, Mr. Gotobed in the Botanist's Cruicle, 1805. 



1. Isis. Wytham. Cumnor. Shrivenham, Buscot. Appleton. 



2. Ock. Hinksey, Bosivell. On the banks of fields about Blewbury, 



but not very plentiful, Lousley in EusseH's Cat. 1839. Marcham, 

 Walker. Kennington. Appleford. Wittenham. Wantage. 

 Garford. Didcot. Mai'cham. 



3. Pang. Tilehurst, Tufnail. Moulsford. Basildon. Parley. 



Bradfield. Bucklebury. Frilsham. Hermitage. 



4. Kennet. Calcot. Beenham. Hampstead Marshall. Brimpton. 



Elcot. Woodhay. 



5. Loddon. In the Common fields opposite Bisham Wood, &c.. Mill. 



Common in fields about Windsor, Gotohed. About Maidenhead, 

 Winch, add. in New Bot. Guide, 1835, Bray. Winkfield. Barkham. 

 Near Three-mile Cross. 

 Var. INTERMEDIA (Liudg, in Lindbl. Bot. Notiser (1841), 151, as a 

 species) =^. hyhrida, Peterm. ex Reichb. Fl. Saxon. 17, is the less fre- 

 quent form w^hich I have seen near Kennington, Hagborne, Catmore, 

 Twyford, &c., but I have not specially attended to the distribution of 

 the two ; the commonest form is the var. pilosissima, S. F. Gray in 

 Nat. Arr. ii. 131. 



A. fatua is recorded for all the bordering counties except Bucks and 

 East Gloucestershire ; but I have seen it in the former county near 

 Taplow, &c., and near Fairford in the latter. 



