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Cynosurus cristatus, L. Crested Dog’s-tail Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common throughout the island in dry pastures and waste turfy 
places by roadsides and lanes. 
Cynosurus echinatus, L. Rough Dog s-tail Grass. 
Colonist or Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. On banks and rough waste ground: often in abundance 
where it occurs. Roadside bank by the big quarry at Paradis, 
abundant in 1890, very scarce in 1899. In profusion in 1890 on 
the eastern side of the Vale Castle Hill. Portelette, descending to: 
Rocquaine, plentiful on a rough furzy hillside. Mont Cuet, near 
the first gate, a good sprinkling of plants in 1892. Roadside by 
the battery at Les Camps (viu.), plentiful in 1892. Sparingly in 
1900 by the zigzag road beyond the Trinity Houses at Rocquaine 
(Andrews). In #7. Sarn. this grass is noted for Mont Saint and 
Portinfer. In Gosselin’s herbarium specimens are labelled ‘ South- 
east corner of a cultivated piece of ground behind the house of Mr. 
Lefebvre’s saltpans.’ This is a very distinct and beautiful grass, but 
uncertain in its appearance, being seldom found in the same pro- 
fusion in one spot two years in succession. It is very rare in 
Normandy. 
Dactylis glomerata, L. Cock’s-foot Grass.. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common throughout the island. 
Festuca uniglumis, Sol. Single-glumed Fescue Grass. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Frequent, and in many parts abundant, all along the sandy coast 
from Rocquaine to Lancresse. This species is the Festuca cambrica 
of Gosselin, as proved by a specimen so named in his herbarium. 
Festuca sciuroides, Roth. Barren Fescue Grass. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Common on dry banks, walltops, and roadsides in all parts. 
Specimens in Gosselin’s herbarium show that this is his Festuca 
myuros. In 1890 I found on a dry bank at Mont Saint, St. Saviour’s, 
a good many strange-looking plants having the uppermost leafsheaths 
reaching quite up to the panicle; it is possible that they were hybrids 
between sciuroides and Myurus. The plants were about six inches. 
high or less. In Alderney I have seen remarkably fine specimens of 
Ff. scturotdes eighteen inches in height. 
Festuca Myurus, L. Mousetail Fescue Grass. 
Colonist or Casual. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Very rare. A few roots in 1889 in a cultivated field at Grosse 
Hougue, St. Sampson’s. One root on the Vale Castle quarry heap. 
The plant named #: myuros by Gosselin is the preceding species. 
