312 GEAMINEJ], 



Rich waste ground ; very rare. A. August. 

 VII. [Thames bank about the neat-houses f ; Pet. Midd.] Chelsea Gardens, 

 spontaneous, 1849 ; Thos. Moore {v. s.). Ibid., 1852 ; Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 First record: Petiver, 1695. Scarcely naturalised. Extinct? 



ECHINOCHLOA, Pal. de Beam. 



766. ^ E. Crus-gralli, Beauv. Panicum C.-g., L. (L. Cat.). 

 Gr. paniceum sylv. spica divisa, C. B. (Merr., Budd., Pet., Dill.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 148. Curt. F. L. f. 4. 



Waste and cultivated ground ; rather rare. A. July — September." 

 II. By the towing-path, Hampton Court, a single plant, 1867. 

 V. "Waste heaps by the canal, Apperton. 

 VI. Near Barnet ; Herb. Dev. Instit. Exeter. Amongst ' seeds,' Starchness, 



Edmonton, 1858, abundant. 

 VII. [In a lane by the neat-house gardens ; Merrett, 56, and B. Syn. iii. 

 394.] Physic garden, Chelsea ; Budd. MSS. About Fulham moat ; 

 Pet. Midd. and Gram. Cone. 43. Parson's G-reen. Site of Exhibi- 

 tion, South Kensington. Victoria Street, Westminster. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666; also first as a British plant. The Middle- 

 sex plant usually has the upper glumes awned, as figured in Knapp, 

 t. 11. 



SETAEIA, Pal. de Beauv. 



767. * S. vlridis, Beauv. 



Gr. Panici effigie spica simplici, Ger. (Merr.). Panicum v., L. (Curt. 



Mart.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 149. Curt. F. L. f. 4. 



Waste and cultivated ground; rather rare. A. July — September. 

 II. In a field betwixt Tuddington and Hampton Court ; Merrett, 56. By 

 the towing-path, Hampton Court, a few plants. 

 III. Twickenham, near the railway, a few plants, and by the Thames, two 



specimens. 

 IV. Dungheap in a field bet. Sudbury Ey. Station and Apperton, 1867- 

 VII. [Near the neat-houses, Chelsea; Mart. App. P. C. 65.] Market 

 garden grounds bet. Earl's Court and Kensington, 1829 ; Pamplin. 

 Near Down's Park Road, Clapton, 1865; Grugeon (v.s.). West 

 India Docks, bet. basin and wall, 1867 ; Cherry (v.s.). A weed in 

 Chelsea Gardens; T.Moore. Site of Exhibition of 1862, South 

 Kensington. Kensington Gore, a single plant. Camden Town, 

 near the canal. Back of Adelaide Road, N.W. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666; also first as British. An ancient intro- 

 duction. Considered native by many botanists, but undoubtedly of 

 foreign origin in several (probably in all) of the above localities. 



t The neat-houses, so frequently mentioned, stood on that part of the Thames bank 

 along which Grosvenor Road now passes, between Vauxhall and Chelsea Bridges. The 

 south part of modern Pimlico was built on the neat-house gardens. 



