200. GUERNSEY. 
Poa annua, L. Annual Meadow Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common: ‘creeping silently, creeping everywhere.’ Pro- 
bably no other British plant thrives in such a variety of situations 
and flowers under such unfavourable conditions as this ubiquitous 
little grass. 
Poa trivialis, L. Rough Meadow Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Generally distributed and common in damp, shady places, 
pastures, and roadsides. 
(Poa sudetica, Haenke, occurs in Alderney.) 
Poa pratensis, L. Smooth Meadow Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common in pastures, and on dry banks, roadsides, and 
wall-tops. The var. swbcaerulea, Sm., occurs in Alderney. 
(Poa compressa, L., has been recorded for Sark.) 
Glyceria fluitans, R. Br. Common Flote Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common throughout the island on the sides of ditches and slow 
streams: often growing in and floating on the water. 
Gerarde says this and allied species are called ‘Flote grasse 
bicause they swim and flote in the water,’ but, according to Prior, it’ 
is ‘not so much from its floating on the water, as from its abounding 
n flofed or irrigated meadows.’ 
Glyceria plicata, Fries. Folded-leaved Flote Grass. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Not common, or perhaps overlooked. Ditches at Grande Mare. 
Ditches behind Ivy Castle. In 1891 I found on the wet road- 
side behind St. Helena the var. deciinata, Breb. (77. Vorm., ed. 5, 
p. 464). 
Sclerochloa maritima, Lindl. Sea Meadow Grass. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. Banks of a brackish drain on the eastern side of 
Cobo, plentifully. In “7. Sarn. it is noted for Braye du Vale. Two 
forms of this plant are preserved in Gosselin’s herbarium: one, 
without locality, labelled oa maritima: the other, named Aegilops 
tncurva, from ‘ Vale Bridge and Mr. Lefebvre’s saltpans.’ 
Sclerochloa procumbens, Beauv. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Very rare: perhaps extinct. This plant was found by Babington,. 
