572 GRAMINACEAE 



Top. Bot. 483. Syme, E. B. xi. 87, t. 1745. Nyman, 817. Fl. Oxf. 342. 

 Native. Ericetal. Heatlis, bogs, and heathy pastures. Local. P. 



April-July. 

 First record. Bulmarsh Heath, Mr. S. Budge in Herb. Brit Mus. 1800. 



Triodia decumhens, Bagley, Mr. Baxter in Walk. Fl. 1833. 



1. Isis. Near Bablock Hythe. 



2. Ock. Bagley Wood, Baxter, 3ISS. 1823. 



3. Pang. Streatley. Abundant on Cold Ash and Oare Commons. 



Bucklebury. Fence Wood. Ashampstead. 



4. Kennet. Mortimer, Tufnail. Aldermaston. Silchester. Hamp- 



stead Marshall. Inkpen Common. Snelsmore. Burghfield. 

 Greenham Common. Wickham. Padworth. Crookham 

 Common. 



5. Loddon. Bulmarsh, Budge. Still there in 1896, Tufnail. Woods 



near Mario w, on the Henley Road, Mill. Farley Hill. Near 

 Jouldern's Ford. Finchampstead. Ambarrow. Ascot. Sand- 

 hurst. Coleman's Moor. Stubbing's Heath. Risely. Windsor 

 Great Park. 

 Sieglingia is found in all the bordering counties. 



PHRAGMITES, Trin. Fund. Agr. 134 (1820}, p.p. 

 P. communis, Trinius, 1. c. Common Beed. 



P. Phragmites, Karst. Arundo Phragmites, Linn. Sp. PI. 81 (1753), and 

 Herb. A. vallatoria, Ger. Em. 36. 

 Top. Bot. 478. Syme, E. B. xi. 58, t. 1727. Nyman, 798. Fl. Oxf. 335. 

 Native. Paludal. Sides of rivers, ponds, and streams, wet hedge- 

 banks. Marshes, common, and in some places an abundant 

 plant. P. June-August. 

 First record. Arundo vallatoria foUis ex luteo variegatis. Found by the 

 river Thames not far from Oxford, and proves beautiful in our 

 Gardens, Mr. Bobart in Bay, Sijn. 236, 1690. Sonning, Mr. S. 

 Budge in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Arundo phragmites, much more 

 durable than straw for thatching, and useful for screens, Mavor's 

 Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 Phragmites is abundant by the side of the Thames at intervals 

 throughout its course ; near Bablock Hythe it attains a height of 

 nearly ten feet. Fine clumps are to be seen in some ponds by the 

 railway near Wantage Road Station ; in the spring the contrast of 

 the bluish-green foliage with the dead stems of the preceding year 

 gives a charming effect. In the Kennet Valley it is to be seen in great 

 profusion in the reed beds, of which it is the prevailing feature ; these 

 extend throughout the Berkshire course of the river as far as to 

 Midgham, and in some places, especially near Hampstead Marshall, are 

 of great beauty. By the Loddon there are some fine beds where the 



