598 GRAMINACEAE 



4. Kennet. Theale. Newbury. Padworth. Enborne. 



5. Loddon. In a field on the left side of the Maidenhead Road, about 



a mile from the town of Maidenhead ; it grew in patches, about twice 



as tall as the L. perenne which surrounded it, Mill. Maidenhead. 



Twyford. Sonning. 



Var. iTALicuM (A. Br. in Flora xvii. (1834) 259, as a species). Italian Rye 



Grass. L. perenne, var. italicum, Parnell, 1. c. 298, t. 138. Syme, E. B. xi. 186, 



1815. Fl. Oxf. 354. 



Occurs as a planted crop in all the districts, and relics of its cultivation 

 have been noticed at Htirst, Melvill, Abingdon, Upton, Padworth, Maiden- 

 head, Silchester, &c. Said to have been first introduced as a fodder grass in 

 1831 ; it is kept distinct from L. multijlormn by Willkomm and Lange in 

 Prod. Fl. Hisp., and is said to be perennial, not annual. 



Var. coMPOsiTOM, Mut. Fl. Fr. iv. 139. L. compositum, Thuill. Fl. Par. 

 ed. 2, 62. Has been seen in seed crops near Newbury, at Basildon, &c. 



**Ii. TEMULEXTCM, Linn. Sp. PI. 83 (1753), and Herb. Bearded Darnel. 



L. album, Ger. Em. 78. 

 Top. Bot. 504. Syme, E. B. xi. 187, t. 1816. Nyman, 844. Fl. Oxf. 344. 

 Colonist. Agrestal. Cornfields and waste places. Very rare. A. June-Aug. 

 First record. Grainen loliaceum locustis hrevihus, near Windsor [? Surrey], 

 Mr. Stonestreet in Herb. Oxf. about 1700. 



2. Ock. Waste ground near Grandpont, and by the railway at Didcot. 

 In a field near Kingston Bagpuze. 



Var. ARVENSE (With. Bot. Arr. ed. 3, ii. 168, as a species), Syme, E. B. 1. 1817. 



5. Loddon. Near Windsor, 3Ir. Stonestreet. 



As a casual plant it is recorded for Surrey, Hants, Wilts, and Oxfordshire. 



AGROPYRON, J. Gaertn. in Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. i. (1770} 539. 

 A. caninum, Beauv. Agrost. 102, as Agropyrum. 



Triticum caninum, Linn. Sp. PI. 86 (1753), and Herb. Ehjmm caninus, 



Linn, Fl. Suec. 39. 

 Top. Bot. 501. Syme, E. B. xi. 176, t. 1809. Nyman, 841. Fl. Oxf. 353. 

 Native. Septal. Hedges, borders of woods, &c. Not very common, 



but occurs in scattered localities in all the districts. P. July. 

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



Triticum caninum. Dog's Wheat, Dr. Noehden. Woods and hedges, 



Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Buscot Wood. AVytham Wood. Appleton. 



2. Ock. Wootton, Boswell. Boar's Hill. South Hinksey. Cothill. 



Wittenliam. Challow, Tubney. Didcot. 



3. Pang. Marlstone. Fence Wood. Ashampstead. Ashridge. Brad- 



field. Tidmarsh. 



4. Kennet. Mortimer, Tvfnail. Padworth. Aldermaston. Theale. 



Sandleford. Inkpen. 



5. Loddon. Bisham Wood, Mill. Sunninghill, Sir J. Banks. Twy- 



ford. Near Jouldern's Ford. Blackwater. Bisham. Waltham. 

 Windsor. 

 A. caninum is found in all the bordering counties. 



