586 GRAMINACEAE 



First probable record. jP. duriusada, Hard Fescue, Di*. Noehden, Dry 

 pastures and meadows, and F. rubra, Purple Fescue, Dr. Noehden. 

 High heaths and sterile pastures, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. First 

 certainly recorded by the author. 



1. Isis. Faringdon. Wytham. Cumnor. Longworth. Shrivenham, &c. 



2. Ock. Blewburton Hill. Lockinge. Sunningwell. Hinksey. 



Wootton. Shippon. 



3. Pang. Pangbourn. Bradfield. Bucklebury. 



4. Kennet. Mortimer. Aldermaston. Kintbury. Hungerford, &c. 



5. Loddon. Windsor Park. Sandhurst. Farley Hill. Ambarrow. 



Finchampstead, 

 The above localities are for F. eu-ruhra of Hackel's Monographic 

 Festucaruni Europaearum. 



F. RUBRA, sub-var. barbata, Hackel. F. harbata, Schrank, Prim. Fl. 

 Salisb. 46 (1792). F. rubra dumetonim. Gaud. Fl. Helv. i. 686 (1828). 

 F. rubra, var. pubescens, Gren. et Godr. Fl. Fr, iii. 574. ' 



1. Isis. Wj^tham. 2. Ock. Hinksey. 3. Pang. Compton. 



4. Kennet. Aldermaston. 5. Loddon. Windsor Park. 



Park Place. 

 Probably not unfrequent, but I have only cited specimens seen by 

 Prof. Hackel. 



Var. coMMUTATA, Gaud. Fl. Helv. i. 287 (1828 = var. /a/?«x (Thuill. 

 Fl. Par. ed. 2, 50 (1799), as a species). Hackel, Mon. I.e. 142. 



4. Kennet. Padworth. Brimpton. 5. Loddon. Near Swallowfield. 



Windsor Park. 

 This variety is treated as a sub-species by Nyman. 

 F. rubra occurs in all the bordering counties. 



r. elatior, Linn. Sp. PI. 75 (1753). Fl. Suec. ed. 32, and Herb. Tall 



Fescue Grass. 

 Top. Bot. 497. Syme, E.B. xi. 150, t. 1789. Nyman, 825. Fl. Oxf. 347 



Sutton, Perm. Past. t. vii. 

 Native. Pratal. Wet pastures, sides of rivers, marshes, cultivated 

 fields, damp hedge-rows, &c. Common and widely distributed. 

 A very common grass in the meadows of the Thames. P. June- 

 August. 

 First record. F. pratensis, Russell's Cat. 1839, and by Mr. G. G. Mill in 

 Phyt. i. 995. 1843. 

 Var. PRATENSIS (Huds. Fl. Angl. 37 (1762), as a species\ Syme, E. B. 

 xi. 159, t. 1 791. Usually found in drier situations than the preceding 

 species, and is often found in seed crops. It occurs frequently in all 

 the districts. 



1. Isis. Wytham. Appleton. Longworth. Faringdon. Watch- 

 field. Bourton. 2. Ock. Kennington. South Hinksey. 

 Eadley. Sutton Courtney. Wallingford. Cholsey. Marcham. 



