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790. A. pubescens, L. Dovmy Oat Grass. 



Native ; on banks, in waste places and old pasture land where 

 the soil is calcareous. Rare, and very local. Part of May, 

 June. 

 D. III. Devil's Point ; Johns, Keys, Fl. iii. 273 : with a reference to the 

 Flora of Dr. Jacob, but the species is not mentioned m that 

 work. It is however likely to have occm-red at the place. 

 lY. Cattedown Quarries ; Hoi^e, Phyt. i. 161 ; seen at Cattedown, 

 1875 ; in plenty at Prince Rock, 1873 ; several plants on a 

 small mass of rock between the cement works at Deadman's 

 Bay and Cattedo-^Mi Aollage, 1874. Mount Batten ; Brent, 

 Keys, Ft. iii. 273. Three or four plants on the Hoe, near Tin 

 yide, 1880. In rough turfy ground above Jenny Chff. In 

 many places on the Ihnestone beds between the eastern bank of 

 the Plym estuary and Elburton ; near Turnchapel and Radford, 

 about Pomphlet, near Billacombe, at Wixenford, near Hay 

 farm-house, at Gore, &c. In plenty on the grassy slope below 

 the Amphitheatre at Saltram. Two plants in a field on Derri- 

 ford estate. Egg Buckland, June, 1878 ; probably introduced. 

 V. Two or three plants on a bank m a pastm-e between Kitley and 

 Rounds Nest, near Yealmpton village. May, 1878. 

 This occurs on slate around beds of limestone as well as on the latter 

 rock, but probably wherever it appears as a Native there is a consider- 

 able amount of lime m the soil. It is one of the species with a strikingly 

 local distribution. 

 First record : Hare, 1842. 



791. A. strigosa, Schreb. Black Oat. 



Colonist or Casual ; mostly in fields of cultivated oats, but also 

 as a weed in arable land with other crops. Rather common. 

 July, August. 



c. 1. One plant by the roadside near Latchbrook, St. Stephens, August, 

 1871. Very sparingly among oats in a field between Port 

 Wrinkle and St. Germans Beacon, 1875. One plant on the 

 border of a field near Trematon, September, 1875. 

 II. One at the side of a barley-field at Rame, August, 1875. One 

 on a hedge-bank a little beyond Cremyll, 1877. Two or three 

 in a field of mangold wurzel near Torpoint, 1877 ; several in a 

 field of oats, 1878. 



D. III. A plant on a wall and another by the roadside near the bridge 

 over Weston Mills Lake ; the latter with Bromus secalinus, 

 August, 1873. One behind Osborne Villas, Stoke DamereJ, in 

 front of a stable-yard, 1871. With fodder plants and oats in a 

 field near Prospect, 1874. Seen among oats in fields at Whit- 



