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ih. A few plants in neglected garden ground between Crabtree 

 and Laira, 1872, Among potatoes at Saltram, 1872, 

 Nowhere permanent ; and the species would disappear were it not for 

 the seed being scattered with refuse from bird-cages, &c. 



ALOPECUEUS, L. 



772. A. geniculatus, L. Bent-stemmed Foxtail Grass. 



Native ; in shallow pools, about ponds and ditches, and in other 

 wet or damp places. Very common. June to September. Area 

 general. 

 Occurs very near the town of Plymouth, and is one of the most fre- 

 quent grasses in shallow pools by roadsides. 



773. A. bulbosus, L. Tuberous Foxtail Grass. 



Native ; in salt marshes. Very rare. Part of May, June, 

 c. I. In great abundance in a large marsh on the left bank of the 

 Tiddy, just below Tideford. 

 II. In a salt marsh at Cotehele ; and in another small marsh or mud- 

 flat below Danescombe Vale, in plenty : both stations by the 

 tidal Tamar. Discovered in 1875. 

 This is very likely to occur in District in., but is unrecorded for it. 



774. A, pratensis, L. Meadow Foxtail Grass. 



Native ; in damp pastures, meadows, and on banks. Locally 

 common. May, June, 

 c. I. Landrake. St. Germans, in plenty. 



II, Kingsmill. 

 D. III. Moimt Wise, Devonport ; Mr. H. Tucker, Keys, Fl. iii. 267. 

 Pennycomequick and Cemetery grounds. Plymouth and Saltash 

 Road. 

 IV. St. Andrew's Churchyard, Hoe, &c., Plymouth. Lipson. Egg 



Buckland. Plympton. 

 V. Cornwood. 

 VI. Ivybridge ! ; Keys, FL iii, 268. Pamflete. Between Ivybridge 



and Ermington. 

 A very common grass in the turf of gardens in the toTvn of Plymouth 

 and in pastiu'es aroimd, yet absent from very considerable portions of the 

 area of the Flora. 



A. agrestis, L. Casual. Pl3Tnouth ; ITore, Keys, Fl. iii. 268. A 

 single plant in a barley-field at Rame (District ii, ), July, 1875 ; a few 

 with Trifolium incarnatum in a field near Prospect, Pennycross (in.) ; 

 doubtless mtroduced, like Silene annulata, Thore, which was also growing 

 with the Trifolium crop. This cannot be considered even a Colonist. 



