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This grass is mentioned by Hudson in his Flora Anglica as a Devon 

 plant, under the designation of A. canina, var. agrostis foliis setacis 

 montosis rigidis glaucis, cuinio erecto (ed. 2, 31, 1778). Ciirtis had it 

 from Devon (see Smith, Eng. Fl. i. 91). The elder Hooker quotes the 

 Rev. J. S. Tozer as saying : " On a sunny day the panicle is beautifully 

 spreading, but it collapses very quickly m cloudy weather or on bemg 

 gathered." Brit. Fl. ed. 2, 37. 



778. A. canina, L. Brown Bent Grass. 



Native ; on commons, shady hedge-banks, in pastures, and about 

 woods. Common. Part of June, July, 

 c. I. Hessenford. Between Denabole and Sheviock village, and else- 

 where about Sheviock. Between Polbathick and Trerule. 

 Tideford. 

 II. Mount Edgcumbe. Marshy ground near St. Johns village. 

 Kingsmill. Waste gromid by the St. Dominick Road, near 

 Vernico Down. Cotehele. Hingston Down. 

 D. III. Between St. Budeaux and Tamerton Foliot. Warleigh Wood. 

 Denham Bridge. Wood opposite Calstock. 

 IV. Bickleigh Down ; Brent, Keys, Fl. iii. 270. Saltram Wood. 

 Fursdon, woodland banks about Plymbridge, &c., Egg Buck- 

 land. 

 V. Wembury; Keys, ih. Between Staddiscombe and Knighton. 



Near Cholwichtown. 

 VI. Dartmoor ; Keys, ih. ; seen near the Western Beacon. Near 

 Caton. 



779. A. alba, L. Marsh Bent Grass. 



Native ; in damp places by roadsides, pastures, and meadows. 

 Very common. July, August. 

 c. I. Between Polbathick and Trerule. 



II. Anderton. St. Johns. 

 D, III. Buckland Monachorum ; Brent, Keys, Fl. iii. 270. Tamerton 

 Foliot. 

 IV. Hoe, Plymouth, 1879. Oreston and Hooe. Widey. Plj^nbridge 



Road, Egg Buckland. Churchyard of Plympton St. Mary. 

 V. Dunstone. Wiverton. Brixton. 

 VI. Near Erme Bridge. Between Ivybridge and Ermington. 



h. stolonifera. 



Common on chflfs by the coast. I 



Noted for Districts i., ii., iv., and v., and it is almost certain to grow 

 also in vi., above Bigbury Bay, since it occurs at Revelstoke. Jones 

 first recorded it for District i. as follows : " In great abundance on the 

 chfts between Crafthole and Looe." Bot. Tour, 16 ; 1820. 



