574 GRAMINACEAE 



2. Ock. Wootton. Frilford. Near Radley, rare. Near Shippon, 



By the railway near Abingdon. Tubney. Between Abingdon 

 and Marcham, on banks by the roadside. 



3. Pang. Unwell Wood, Laicson in Herb. Ox/. Sulham, Tufnail. 



Streatley. Moulsford Downs. Not unfrequent on the downs 

 near East Ilsley. Basildon. Cold Ash Common. 



4. Kennet. Near the Seven Springs. Near West Ilsley. Near 



Inkpen. 



5. Loddon. In the little wood on the right of the Maidenhead 



Road at its first ascent, but sparingly, Mill. Near Hurley. 

 Var. GRACILIS (Pers. Syn. i. 97, as a species), Syme, 1. c, has been 

 noted from the Pang district near Compton. 

 Koeleria is found in all the bordering counties. 



MOIjINIA, Schrank, Baier. Fl. i. 344 (1789). 

 M. varia, Schrank, 1. c. Purple Melic Grass. 



Aira cuerulea, Linn. Sp. PI. 63 (1753), and Herb. Melica caeruha, Linn. 



Mant. ii. 325 (1771). Molinia caeriilea, Moench, Meth. 183 (1794). 

 Top. Bot. 486. Sj^me, E. B. xi. 90, t. 1747. Nyman, 818. Fl. Oxf. 343. 

 Native. Uliginal. Bogs, marshes, and wet heathy places. Rare in 



the north, but abundant in the south of Berkshire, occupying 



square miles of the heathy country, almost to the exclusion of 



other grasses. P. July-September. 

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



M. coerulea, Cold Ash, Russell's Cat. 1839. 



2. Ock. Frilford Marsh. Common over a limited area of Cothill 



Bog. In the valley in which is the Rifle Range above South 

 Hinksey. Near Marcham. 



3. Pang. Fence Wood, var. b. Cold Ash Common, Russell, I. c. 



Curridge. 



4. Kennet. Mortimer. Burghfield. Padw^orth. Brimpton. Sil- 



chester. Aldermaston. Snelsmore Common. Wickham. Green- 

 ham Common. Ufton. Inkpen. 



5. Loddon. Bulmarsh Heath, Rudge. Early,. Tufnail. Sunning- 



well. Windsor Park. One of the most frequent grasses over 



the heathy tract on the Bagshot Sands, south and west of 



Wokingham, 



The dark bluish-green rigid foliage and dark purple spikes are 



a prominent feature in the heath vegetation, where it often occurs as 



the var. breviramosa (Parnell, Grasses of Brit. p. 230, of M. coerulea), 



as at Sandhurst, &c. 



By the sides of wet trenches in the heathy country, and by the 

 borders of Virginia Water, of Aldermaston Lake, &c. , it occurs as 

 the var. major (Roth in Syme^ 1. c, sub M. coeiulea), which is some- 



