GEAMINE^. 323 



Woods ; rather rare. P. May, June. 



I. In the Old Park "Wood!; lane near the chalkpit ; BlacJcst. Fasc. 34. 



IV. Hampstead "Wood! ; Mcrrett, 49, and R Syn. iii. 403. Harrow Park 



near the ruins ; Melv. 89. Bishop's and Turner's Woods. Scratch 



Wood. 



VI. Colney Hatch ; Herb. Harclw. Hadley ! ; Warren. Near Whetstone. 



Winchmore Hill Wood. 

 VII. Hornsey Wood near Highgate ; BlacJcst. Spec. 29. Ken Wood. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666. 



(M. nutans, L. Copse near Hornsey ; M. cf- G. 86. No doubt M. unijiora 

 was intended.) 



MOLINIA, 8chrank. 



798. IVI. caerulea, M6?ich. 



Gr, jJratense serot. panic, looig. 'purpurasccnte, R. Syn. (Blackst.). Aira 



ccerulea (M. & Gr.). Melica ccBridea (Curt.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 193. Curt. P. L. f. 5. 

 Wet heaths and meadows ; rare. P. July — September. 

 I. Moist meadows near Harefield Moor ; BlacJcst. Fasc. 39. Harefield 

 Common. Harrow Weald Common ; Melv. 89. 



III. Drilling G-roimd, Hounslow. 



IV. In the bog on North Heath, Hampstead. 

 VI. [In Hornsey Churchyard ; M. ^ G. 89.] 



VII. [In a field near Pancras ; M. ^ G. 89.] 

 First record: BlacJcstone, 1737. 



POA, Linn. 



799. P. annua, L. Annual Meadow Grass. 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 201. Curt. F. L. f. 1. 



Fields, meadows, gardens, waste ground, gravel paths, walls, &c. ; very 



common. A. All the year ; in perfection in May. 

 Throughout all the districts. 

 VII. Forms by far the largest part of the turf in the London parks, squares 

 and gardens, being one of the few grasses capable of enduring the 

 adverse influences of atmosphere, soil and drought.* Appears spon- 

 taneously in every piece of waste garden ground in town, e. g. St. 

 Paul's Churchyard, and is probably the commonest plant we have. 

 No old record. First: Irvine, about 1830. 



(P. bulbosa, L. Cyb. Br. iii. 202. Lowe t. 39. IV. On Hampstead Heath; 

 M. 4- G. 103, Cooper 102. VII. On a wall in Fulham ; M. ^ G. 103. 

 Probably the bulbous state of P. pratensis, was intended.) 



* When fresh grass-seed is sown to renew the turf in London, very few species ever 

 flower, and Poa annua with LoUum pet enne and DadijUs are almost the only ones able to 

 flourish. 



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