POA 579 



First recorded by the author in this Flora. 



4. Kennet. In a coppice on the border of Wiltshire at the base of 

 Riever Hill, slightly to the west of Gibbet Hill. In some plenty, 

 growing with an immense quantity of Milium effusum, but with 

 no introduced plants in the vicinity. The coppice is quite a 

 small one, and would not appear to be of much use as a game 

 covert. 



In this locality I think it is probably native. The continental dis- 

 tribution would lead us to expect it to be a native of our country as 

 it occurs in Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, &c. I have de- 

 scribed the situation of the plant to Professor Hackel of St. Poelton, 

 and he agrees with me in thinking the plant is a native of Britain. 

 Inquiries in the neighbourhood have so far failed to elicit any sugges- 

 tion that the Grass has been planted. It may be well to bear in mind 

 that in the seventies Mr. Brotherston found it in localities extending 

 over many miles of country in Roxburgh and Berwick, and I have had 

 it sent me from a wood in Ayrshire. Mr. H. C. Watson in Comp. Cyb. 

 Br. calls it a casual, and suggests that it has been introduced with 

 foreign hay or seeds, but this statement was made before its occurrence 

 in the Scottish counties was reported. In Scotland the plant may 

 have been passed over for Fesiuca sylvatica. Can it have been this plant 

 which Mr. T. B. Flower in Top. Bot. reported as F. sylvatica for North 

 Wilts ? 



P. pratensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 67 (1753), not of Herb, (which is P. alpina). 

 Smooth- stalked Meadow Ch'ass. 



Gramen pratense, Ger. Em. 2. 



Top. Bot. 492. Syme, E. B. xi. 127, t. 1771. Nyman, 834. Fl. Oxf. 350. 



Native. Pascual. Meadows, pastures, waysides, woods, wall-tops, 

 heaths, &c. Abundant in all the districts. Next to Poa annua 

 our commonest grass. Occurring in turf and on wall-tops in 

 Reading. P. May-August. 



First recorded in Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 It offers a considerable range of variation. 

 Var. suhcaeridea (Sm. E. B. t. 1004, as a species), a very well-marked 



variety, if indeed it is not a distinct species, which, is rather common 



on dry heaths, pastures, waysides, and wall-tops in all the districts. 



1. Isis. Buckland, Boswell. Lechlade. Wytham. Buscot. Long- 



worth. Cumnor. Appleton. 



2. Ock. Tubney. Besilsleigh. Frilford. Sunningwell, Radley. 



Sandford. Abingdon. The Ridgeway. Cholsey. Blewbury. 

 Kingston Bagpuze. 



3. Pang. In woods at De la Bere, Pangbourn, Tufnail. Hermitage. 



Ilsley. Hampstead Norris. Yattendon. Bradfield. 



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