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S. Townsendi: near Lymington ; between Milford and Hurst 

 castle ; near Yarmouth and west side of Medina river at Werrar, 

 (Isle of Wight) ; abundant south of Hythe, less plentiful north- 

 ward, and not noticed above Crocknore Hard ; Havant to 

 Emsworth ; Hayling Island. 



Distribution in the United Kingdom.— Dorset, Hampshire, 



Sussex, and Kent. 



Distribution beyond the United Kingdom.— No station 



recorded, but Husnot (" Graminees," p. 13), with Southampton 

 specimens before him treats S. Townsendi as a variety of S. stricta. 



S. alterniflora : Lymington ; Hythe to Eling, abundant ; Red- 

 bridge to Millbrook, plentiful; by the Itchen, from the sea 

 upwards to beyond Southton, profusely ; Hamble and Hill Head ; 

 about the mouths of Shirley brook ; coast road 

 to Netley. 



Distribution in the United Kingdom.— No record of it 



having been found outside of the Southampton district. 



Distribution beyond the United Kingdom.— Banks of the 



Adour, Bayonne, and at Fuenterrabia, just over the Spanish 

 boundary ; North America. 



Figures of the three species are given in the publications cited 

 below : — 



S- stricta : Eng. Bot. ed. 1, 1797, vol. vi., t. 380— specimen from 

 Aldborough ; ed. 2, 1832, vol. i., t, 190; ed. 3, 1872, vol. xi., 

 t. 1687 ; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ., 1831, vol. L, t. 25 ; Sowerby, 

 Grasses of Great Britain, 1861, t. 140. - 



S. Townsendi : Journ. Bot. 1882, t. 225. 



S. alterniflora : Baxter, Brit. Bot, 1836, vol. iii., t. 203 (S. stricta 



?? 70 P ) ; ? ng * Bot " ed ' 1 ' Su l J P 1 ' i838 > vo1 - iiL > 2812 ! ed - 3, 

 1 Hi vo i* X1 '' *• 1688 ; Sowerby, Grasses of Great Britain, 1861, 

 t. 141 ; Pratt, Fl. PI. Great Britain, vol. vi., t. 272, f. 4. 



In connection with the discovery of S. alterniflora, it may be 

 mentioned that there is a specimen in Borrer's Herbarium, at 

 Kew, collected by him at Southampton in July, 1829, seven years 

 before Bromfield's discovery. It was at first named stricta. and 

 subsequently altered in his own handwriting. - 



S. alterniflora was described by Loiseleur (Fl. Gall., ed. 1, 

 par. 2, p. 719) in 1807, from specimens collected on the banks of 

 the river Adour, near Bayonne. 



S. Townsendi, Groves, was first recorded, from Hythe specimens, 

 in the " Journal of Botany," 1879, p. 277, as a variety of S. stricta, 

 and subsequently described and figured as a distinct species in 

 the " Report of the Botanical Exchange Club " for 1880-1, p. 37. 



With regard to the popular name applied to this kind of grass, 

 as stated above, Bromfield heard no other than Sedge, of which 

 Saga or Sagg, given by Townsend under S. alterniflora, are 

 probably corruptions. 



As to whether S. alterniflora was originally introduced from 

 America into Europe, tradition, and its very restricted distribution 



