596 GRAMINACEAE 



741 (1817). Festuca sylvatica, Huds. Fl. Angl. 38, not of Villars. 



£. sylvaticum, Beauv. 1. c. vide Indice Kewensi, but the reference 



has not been checked by me. 

 Top, Bot. 501. Syme, E. B. xi. 173, t. 1807. Nyman, 842. Fl. Oxf. 352. 

 Native. Septal. Shady places, hedge-banks, woods, rough pastures, 



chalk downs, &c. Its yellowish-green foliage is a conspicuous 



feature of the spring vegetation. Kather common and widely 



distributed. P. June-August. 



First record. Sunninghill, Sir Joseph Banks, Herb. Brit. Mus. 1773. 

 Recorded as Bromus sylvaticus, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 Our common plant is the form with pubescent spikelets. 

 Var. GLABRESCENS I liave collected near Tubney and Frilsham. 

 The plant of the open chalk downs may prove to be varietally distinct. 

 Bradtypodium, gracile is found in all the bordering counties. 



B. piunatum, Beauv. Agrost. loi (1812. Spiked Fescue Grass. 



Festuca pi^mata, Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 48 (1778). Bromus pinnatus, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 78 (1753). 



Top. Bot. 501. Syme, E. B. xi. 175, t. 1808. Nyman, 842. Fl. Oxf. 353. 



Native. Pascual. Dry calcareous pastures, roadsides, &c. A species 

 distinctly of limestone or chalky soil. Locally abundant, but 

 absent from the areas of the Clays and Bagshot Sands. P. July- 

 August. 



First record. Gramen spica Brizae majus, C. B. Pin. In Copses and 

 Hedges, common enough about Oxford, Bobart in Ray, Syn. ed. 2, 

 248, 1696. See also Hudson's Fl. Angl. 41, 1762. 



1. Isis. Cumnor. Appleton. Eaton Stibble. Dean Court. Pusey. 



Buckland. Buscot. Abundant in the upper part of Wytham 

 Wood. 



2. Ock. Shadwell Copse. Between Cumnor Hurst and Childswell 



Farm, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 448. (Wrongly put in Oxfordshire.) 

 Cothill, growing in the Bog. Frilford. Besilsleigh. Wootton. 

 Marcham. Kingston Bagpuze. By the railway near Abingdon. 

 Uffington. Common on the downs, in large patches which are 

 very conspicuous amid the surrounding vegetation, and in the 

 spring are of a very beautiful yellowish -green tint. Especially 

 abundant about the White Horse Hill. 



3. Pang. Ilsley Downs, W. M. Rogers. Ashridge. Compton. 



4. Kennet. Catmore. West Ilsley Downs, W. M. Rogers. Near the 



Kennet's mouth, on railway, Tafnail. Near Lord Craven's 

 House at Ashbury. 

 Var. GLABRESCENS, Symo, 1. c, is our commoner form ; it occurs at 

 Wootton, Besilsleigh, &c. 



Var. PUBESCENS, S. F. Gray, Nat. Ai-r. ii. 112, which has pubescent 



