BROMUS 591 



5. Loddon. Sonning, Tufnail ; Winkfield, 1805. Shinfield Green. 

 Maidenhead. Twyford. Tilehurst. 



Var. VELUTiNus (Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 349, as a species). B. secaUnus, 

 var. velutinuSj Parnell, Grasses Brit. 270. Syme, E. B. xi. 166, t. i8or. 



1. Isis. Appleton. 2. Ock. Grandpont. Near Abingdon. 



3. Pang. Tilehui'st. 5. Loddon. Near Jouldern's Ford. 



The form of B. 'secalimis with long awns appears to be the more 

 frequent ; it is, according to Grenier and Godron, the Bromus elongatus, 

 Gaud. Agrost. i. 303. 



Var. MVTicvs ^ Bromiis arvensis, Weigel, Obs. p. 6, not of Linn., also 

 has occui-red at Wytham, near the Mill. 



B. secdliyius is recorded for all the bordering counties except East 

 Gloucestershire. 



B. racemosus, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 114 (1762), and Herb., not of Knapp. 

 Serrafalcus racemosus, Pari. PL Rar. Sic. fasc. ii. 14 i 1840). Bromus 



arvensis, Knapp, Gram. Brit. t. 82, not of Linn. 

 Top. Bot. 499. Syme, E. B. xi. 167, t. 1803. Nyman, 823. FL Oxf. 346. 

 Native. Pascual. Meadows and pastures. Locally common. B. 



June-July. 

 First record. Near Old Windsor, Mr. Winch, in New Bot. Guide, 1835. 



1. Isis. Thames meadows near Lechlade, and at intervals along 



the river's course to Oxford, but not so generally distributed as 

 B. commuiatus. 



2. Ock. Marcham. Hinksey. Didcot. In the Thames meadows 



at Kennington, and at intervals as far as to Wallingford, often 

 merging into commutatus. 



3. Pang. Ashampstead. Thames meadows. 



4. Kennet. Near Eeading, BoswelL Hungerford. Padworth. 



5. Loddon. Near Old Windsor, Winch, I. c. In the meadows under 



Bisham Wood by the side of the river. Mill. Sonning, Tvfnail. 

 Bray, and in many of the Thames meadows. 

 B. racemosus is found in all the bordering counties, as I have found 

 it in East Gloucestershire. 

 B. commutatus, Schrad. FL Germ. i. 353 (1806). 



Serrafalcus comm.utatus, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 374 (1843). B. racemosus, 

 var, commutatus, Doell, Fl. Bad. 138. 

 Top. Bot. 499. Syme, E. B. xi. 168, t. 1802. Nyman, 822. Fl. Oxf. 345. 

 Native. Pz-atal, &c. Eich meadows, field borders, cultivated ground, 



&c. Locally abundant. May-September. 

 First record. Cumnor, Mr. Baxter in Herb. Oxf. 1823. See the author 

 Jn Eep. of Bot. Exch. Cluh, 1888, for certain record. 

 1. Isis. In a cornfield by the side of the foot-road going from Dean 

 Court to Cumnor, September, 1823, Baxter. Radcot, the author in 



