380 GRAMIXA. 



YI. Roadside near Sequers Bridge, and elsewhere near Ermington, 



1875, 1878. 

 This looks like a Native species at many places, though it also occurs 

 in fields sown with other fodder grasses. 



830. B. commutatus, Schrad. Confused Brome-Grass. 



Native or Colonist ; on moist banks, by damp roadsides, and in 

 fields of so^vn grasses and fodder plants. Rather common. 

 June, July. 



0. I. Sheviock. St. Germans, by the road to Landrake, 1878. By 

 the roadside as you ascend from Latchbrook towards N otter 

 Bridge. 

 II. Grass-field, Antony, 1878. By the turnpike road near St. Mellion, 

 1876. 



D. III. Side of footpath between Pennycomequick and Stoke Damerel, 

 1880. In a damp spot on a bank by the Plymouth and Saltash 

 Road ; known there for many years past. Between Manadon 

 and Burrington. Between Budshead and St. Budeaux, Road- 

 side near Pound farm-house, between Blaxton and Roborough 

 Down, 1875. By the Plymouth and Tavistock Road, near 

 Womb well, 1875. 

 IV. Pomphlet Quarry ; Bre7it, Keys, Fl. iii. 284 ; on a quay there 

 by the Plym estuary, 1879. Between Billacombe and Elburton. 

 By the military road at Crabtree, 1879 ; near Austen Fort, 

 1878. 

 V. Wembury; Keijs, ib.; in a grass-field there, 1879. One plant 

 in a corn-field near Dunstone, 1878. 



831. B. mollis, L. Soft Brome-Grass. 



Native ; on banks, in pastures, waste turfy places, &c. Very 

 common. June, July. Area general. 

 The commonest and most generally diff'used plant of the genus, growing 

 in the turf of Plymouth gardens, on the Hoe, &c. The variety h. 

 glahrescens is quite frequent. I have met with it close to Plymouth, 

 and m each of the six Districts. Sometimes it has all the appearance of 

 a sown fodder plant, but besides growing in fields occurs on banks and in 

 waste places by roadsides. At Rame (District ii.) a small coast form 

 combines the characters of h. glahrescens and c. IJoydianus. Respecting 

 a somewhat similar form, collected by the shore of Bigbury Bay, in 1875, 

 Dr. Boswell remarks : " This seems to me a form allied to Lloydianiis. 

 More glabrous than usual, and with the panicle less compact, though 

 more so than in ordinary B. mollis. The awns are recurved when dry, 

 but less so than in B. Lloydianus, but more so than in B. hordeaceus, 

 Fries, which it approaches." Bot. Ex. Club Rep., 1875, 31. 



