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here and there, on waste ground, manure heaps, &c, by fortnitous 

 dispersion, but can hardly be called naturalized with us, and hence 

 is not, any more than Buckwheat, a proper species for incorporation 

 with the county flora. 



Anthoxanthum odoratum. In meadows, pastures, woods, &c, es- 

 pecially in dry, heathy, sandy soils ; plentiful over the entire county. 

 Abundant at Apse Castle, &c. The culms have a hot taste when 

 chewed, with a flavour of bitter almonds, and the fresh roots emit a 

 powerful odour, less delicate perhaps than the fragrance of the herbage 

 when drying, and which Swartz, in ' Svensk Botanik,' compares to 

 the smell of the Tonquin bean ; (Wickstrom, Stockh. Fl. p. 19, note). 



Phleum asperum and P. Boehmeri, though very local, and not 

 known to inhabit the counties contiguous to this, may nevertheless 

 prove to be indigenous to Hants, and should be looked for in dry, 

 open fields and pastures, on sand or chalk. 



Phleum arenarium. On loose sand of the sea shore, but not com- 

 mon. On the sandy spit at Norton (by Yarmouth), Freshwater, in 

 considerable plenty, June 21, 1846; already quite dried up by the 

 great heat and long drought of the season, but since gathered there in 

 perfection, in May, which is the proper flowering month of the spe- 

 cies in this county. Along the South Beach, Hayling Island, in con- 

 siderable abundance at intervals. Coast of Hants, Rev. G. E. Smith! 

 Probably occurs on several other parts of the coast line, but flowering 

 early, and soon withering, is from its colour, which comes very near 

 that of the sand it grows upon, easily overlooked when in seed. 



Phleum pratense. Abundant in most parts of the county and Isle 

 of Wight, in meadows, pastures, borders of fields, &c, in high and dry, 

 as well as in low, damp situations ; common on the chalk, in the most 

 arid exposures. 



Alopecurus pratensis. In meadows, pastures and grassy places, 

 by road-sides, &c, mostly in rich or somewhat moist soil ; abundantly 

 throughout the county. 



Alopecurus geniculatus. Extremely common in and about shallow 

 pools, ditches and plashy spots, likewise in moist meadows and pas- 

 tures, in salt marshes, and even on dry ground. Var. /3. Culms 

 swollen, clavate or bulb-shaped at their base. With a. occasionally. 

 On Ryde Dover and elsewhere. "A r ar. 2. Awns longer than the ca- 

 lyx ; root bulbous ; little fruit-stalks branched ; sheaths wider than 

 the thickness of the straw. Awns barely twice the length of the ca- 

 lyx. Anthers purple, changing to brown-yellow. Mr. Woodward 

 thinks this different from the A. bulbosus, with an upright straw. On 



