AIRA FLEXUOSA, Weihe, IN ENGLAND. 
By Hewerr C. Watson, Esq. 
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The ‘Journal of Botany’ has shown the occurrence of this grass in 
Scotland and Ireland; and I can now add also to its habitats the 
third division of our triple kingdom, by reporting the species from 
North Hants. A single culm of it, without the root-leaves, has been 
in my herbarium upwards of a score of years, placed among my speci- 
mens of Aira flexuosa. The label bears no date, and gives only the 
long locality, ** North Hants,—between Farnham and Farnborough,” 
a line of way six or eight miles in extent. I walked with a friend 
rom the one to the other place, soon after the Southampton (now, 
South-Western) Railway was in operation; so the probable station of 
the plant was somewhere about the present site of Aldershot Camp, 
which now covers much of the intervening space. 
On reading Mr. A. G. More’s account of his new locality for the 
plant, in Ireland, it seemed that Fleet Pond would be a suitable 
station for the grass; being an extensive pool of water, with adjacent 
bog or swamp, and situate only half-a-dozen miles westward from the 
road between Farnham and Farnborough. Accordingly I proceeded 
thither, and at once came upon- the grass, within five minutes after 
leaving the railway at Fleet Station. It was there growing in the 
swamp among the usual plants of watery bogs. Further from the 
station, it was found under more easy mditións for access, being 
plentiful within a few yards of the open water of the * Pond,’ on ground 
apparently submerged in winter, but then (September 9) left uncovered 
i by the sinking of the water-level in a dry summer. Its companions 
| were Eleocharis, Molinia, Myrica, Drosera, Carduus pratensis, with 
other swamp-dwellers. I explain the locality thus fully by way of 
suggestion to botanists to examine other similar situations next season, 
and in any part of Britain or Ireland. As might be expected, the 
grass was mostly past its prime; but I secured examples enough to 
-— every member of the Exchange Club next winter; with some 
to spare, in case other botanists should care to apply to me for them. 
Earlier in the season (say July or August) thousands of specimens 
might have been obtained. 
| 4. uliginosa is truly very like A. flexuosa. Its claims to 
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