360 GRAMINA. 



PHLEUM, L. 



775. P. pratense, L. Common Timothy Grass. 



Native ; in pastures, meadows, and waste grassy places. Very 

 common, July, August. Area general. 

 One of the commonest grasses. A plant having two of its spikes 

 furnished each ivith a long bract-like leaf, near Blaxton, 1876. 



P. arenarimn, L. Casual, introduced with ballast. Oreston ; Brent, 

 Keys, Fl. iii. 267. One plant on a heap of fine ballast sand at Cattedown, 

 May, 1875. 



GASTRIDITJM, Beauv. 



776. G. lendig-erum, Gaud. Awned Nitgrass. 



Colonist ; in cultivated land. Very rare and local. July, August. 

 0. II. Between Trevol and St. Johns ; Jacob, FL part 14. Near Tor- 

 pomt ; Hore, Keys, Phyt. iii. 1002. A single plant in a field 

 from which grass had been cut between Torpoint and St. Johns, 

 in a slight depression by the footpath, July, 1872 ; two in an 

 arish in the same neighbourhood, August, 1872. The places 

 named are near together, and the precedmg three records must 

 be considered to have reference to one station only. 

 First record : Jacob, 1836. 



AGROSTIS, L. 



777. A. setacea, Curtis. Bristle-leaved Bent Grass: 



Native ; on commons, moors, and heathy hedge-banks. Locally 

 common. Part of June, early part of July. 

 c. I. By the old road between Polscove and Polbathick, rather spa- 

 ringly, 1878. Viverdon Down, in abmidance. Pillaton Down. 

 Heathy ground near Clapper Bridge. Cadsonbury. 

 II. Whitsand Bay ; Captain M'Adam, Keys, FL iii. 270. Mount 

 EdgcuDibe. Waste ground and hedge-banks between St. Mel- 

 lion and St. Dominick. Kingston Down. 

 D. III. Roborough Down, in profusion. Double Water. Between Beer 

 Alston and Tavistock. 

 IV. Common in Devonshire ; Ea?'l of Gainsborough, Bot. Guide, 196 ; 

 1805. Sparingly by Coleridge Quarry ; in plenty on many 

 exposed hedge-banks where was formerly Egg Buckland Do^\n. 

 Between Colebrook and Shaugh, Bickleigh Down. Hemerdon. 

 Dartmoor. 

 V. Crownhill Down. 



VI. Between Ivybridge and Harford. Western Beacon, Dartmoor. 

 Ascends to over 1450 feet near Shell Top, on Dartmoor. Occurs in 

 profusion on many exposed commons and certain parts of Dartmoor, 

 though now absent from considerable portions of the enclosed tracts. 



