GRAMINE^. 317 



PHRAGMITES, Trin. 



779. P. communis, L. Arundo Phragmites, L. (L. Cat.). Beed. 

 Arundo vallatoria, Ger. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. iii. 173. Lowe t. 15. 



Borders of streams, ditches, and ponds ; rather rare. P. August. 



I. Harefield ! ; Blaclcst. Fasc. 8. Near Woodridings, Pinner ; Melv. 89. 

 II. Stanwell Moor. Staines. 



IV. Hampstead ; Irv. MSS. 



V. Bet. Acton and Turnham Green ! ; Ealing Common ! ; Near Shepherd's 

 Bush and Kew Bridge Ky. Station ! ; JSfewb. 

 VII. Lea Canal bet. Tottenham and Edmonton; Cherry {y.s.). Hackney 

 Wick. Isle of Dogs. 

 First record: Blackstone, 1737. 



CALAMAGROSTIS, Adans. 

 C. lanceolata, Both. Arundo Cal., L. (L. Cat.). Cyb. Br. iii. 173. Lowe 

 1. 15. Is likely to be found. Occurs in Newlands Wood, bet. Harefield 

 and Rickmansworth ; Fl. Herts. 328, a locality part of which is per- 

 haps in Middlesex. 



780, C. Epig^eios, Both. Arundo Ep. L. (L. Cat.). 



C. sylvcB Li. Joannis (Park., Merr.). Gr. arund. panic, molli sjpadicea 



majus (Pet.). Arundo Calamagrostis (Huds., M. & Gr.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 174. Lowe t. 15. 

 Woods and shady places ; very rare. P. August. 

 VII. [In St. John's Wood; Park. 1181, Merrett, 48. Wood against the 

 boarded river; Pet. Midd. 338.] [Bet. Newington and Hornsey; 

 Huds. i. 43.] [Field bet. Kentish Town and the 'Adam and Eve,' 

 Pancras; M. §• G. 127.] [Hedge bet. Kilburn and Primrose Hill, 

 near the railway; Irv. MSS.] Near Lea Bridge, below Clapton, 

 Pamplin ; Land. Fl. 94. 

 First record: Parkinson, 1640; also first as a British plant. Perhaps 

 extinct. 



APERA, Adans. 

 781. A. Spica-venti, Beauv. Corn Bent. Windlestraws. 



Gr. agrorum, Lob. (Ray.). Gr. agr. ventispica, Park.* (Blackst.). Agros- 



tis Spica-venti, L. (B. Gr.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 167. Lowe t. 18. 



Cornfields, cultivated and waste ground ; rather common A. July. 

 I. Harefield, frequent ; Blackst. Fasc. 34. Near Uxbridge ; Lightf. MSS. 



II. Teddington; Lond. Fl. 94. West Drayton, 1848; Morris {v.s.). 



Near Hanworth, very abundant. 



* Buddie {Herb. liv. fol. 36) makes this a synonym of 787, Aira coespitosa ; but Par- 

 kinson's figure {Thtat. 1158. 3) seems more like the present species, to which also Ray 

 1 efers it. 



