204 GUERNSEY. 
Bromus maximus, Desf. 
Colonist or Casual. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Very rare. A few plants near the Vale Castle in 1889. Sparingly 
at Mont Cuet in 1892. Again found near the Vale Castle in 1894.. 
Babington saw it at Cobo, and I possess a specimen gathered at: 
Grand Havre in 1852 by H. C. Watson. This species, which is so 
rare in Guernsey, is one of the commonest grasses in Alderney. 
The very long awns and the comparatively short pedicels readily 
distinguish this from &. s¢errts, which it otherwise resembles. Both 
often grow together. 
Serrafalcus racemosus, Parl. 
Native. First found: Miss Agnew, 1900. 
Very rare. On the cliffs near the Gouffre, where several plants 
were found in June, 1900, by Miss B. Agnew. This species was 
recorded for Sark nearly thirty years ago by Dr. Bull, but had not 
been found elsewhere in these islands. 
Serrafalcus commutatus, Bab. Confused Brome Grass. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Local and rather rare, but plentiful where it occurs in grass fields 
and lanesides in the interior of the island. 
Serrafalcus mollis, Parl. Soft Brome Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common everywhere. The var. glabrescens, which I -have 
found at Cobo and St. Saviour’s, is probably not uncommon. A 
dwarf form (var. compactus, Breb.) occurs on the sandy shores of 
Lancresse, Vazon, and Lerée. Mr. Andrews has found the var. 
Lioydianus, Syme, on the Vazon sandhills: and I have gathered 
plants which ‘ combine the characters of g/abrescens and Lloydianus,’ 
as mentioned by Archer Briggs in his /lora of Plymouth, and which 
agree exactly with specimens from Briggs himself in my possession. 
A small glabrous form, with the panicle reduced to one or two 
spikelets (B. nanus, Weig.) occurs on some parts of the sandy 
coast. 
Serrafalcus arvensis, Godr. Field Brome Grass. 
Casual. First found: Marquand, 1892. 
Very rare. Two or three plants on the roadside near Noirmont 
House, Vale, in 1892. 
Brachypodium sylvaticum, R.&S. alse Brome Grass. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Common in hedgebanks and bushy places throughout the island. 
This species figures in Gosselin’s list as Festuca sinnata, and a 
specimen so named is preserved in his herbarium. 
