364 GRAMINA. 



787. A. caryophyllea, L. Silvery Hair Grass. 



Native ; on banks, in rocky or dry waste places, and on commons. 

 Very common. June. 

 Found both in the enclosed and open country, on the warm coast as 

 well as in the high cold tracts about Dartmoor. The vars. patuliiyes and 

 aggregata occur. 



788. A. praecox, L. Early Hair Grass. 



Native ; on commons, in very dry sandy or rocky waste spots, and 

 on earth-capped walls. Common. May. 

 c. I. Between Seaton and Hessenford. Viverdon Down. 



II. Whitsand Bay ! ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 268. Maker Heights. 

 Calloget Green. 

 D. III. King's Tamerton. Saltash Passage. Roborough Down. 



IV. Rumple. By the tramway at Common and Fancy Woods. Be- 

 tween Shaugh and Cadover Bridge. 

 V. Wembury. Near Dalamore. Hanger Down. 

 VI. Kmgston. Between Ivybridge and Caton ; also between it and 

 Harford. Dartmoor. 

 Most frequent on the coast or near tidal waters and m the moorland 

 tracts, \yiiere it occm'S it is often in abundance. 



AVENA, L. 



789. A. j3.avescens, L. Yellow Oat Grass. 



Native ; in dry pastures, on open banks, and in waste turfy 

 places. Common, though somewhat locally so. July, August. 

 c. I. Between Crafthole and St. Germans Beacon. Tideford. 



II. Sea-bank above Whitsand Bay. Near Millbrook. St. Johns. 

 Antony. Near Saltash. 

 D. III. Devil's Pomt ; Brent, Keys, Fl. iii. 273. Between Pennycome- 

 quick and Stoke Damerel. Plymouth and Saltash Road. St. 

 Budeaux. 

 IV. Under the Citadel, Plymouth ; Saltram ; Keys, ih. The Hoe, 

 Fm-ze Hill Lane, and on the turf in gardens in Plymouth. 

 Down Thomas. In abundance on the limestone east of Ply- 

 mouth. Egg Buckland. By the Plymouth and Tavistock Road, 

 near Fancy. 

 V. Above Bigbury Bay. Revelstoke. Wembury. Newton Ferrers. 

 Lanes between the Totnes and the Plymouth and Ivybridge 

 Roads. 

 VI. Mothecombe. Kingston. Ermington. 



Apparently quite absent from the colder portions of the area ; abun- 

 dant in warm turfy places on the coast. 



