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Newtown, a few miles S. S. E. of Newbury, in considerable plenty; 

 also on hedge-banks between Hurstbourne Priors and Andover, about 

 a mile from the former along the high-road, plentifully, June 3, 1850. 

 In Akender Wood, near Alton, June, 1850. On a bank between 

 Weekhill Farm and the Hanger, Selborne, Dr. T. Bell Salter, Sept. 

 1844 !! The above are the only stations I am at present able to give 

 for a grass which is probably not very uncommon in this, as in other 

 of the southern counties of England, although more general and 

 abundant in the northern counties and Scotland. A slender wood 

 form of P. pratensis I have reason to believe is sometimes taken for 

 this species, as is another state of the same grass, growing on walls 

 and in dry places, for P. coinpressa. 



Poa trivialis. In meadows, pastures, woods, groves, and other 

 shady places ; abundant. Spikelets said to be sometimes single- 

 flowered in var &. parviflora,Yaxr\. In a bundle of specimens pulled 

 in a corn-field near Ryde the glumes were invariably two-flowered, as 

 Smith remarks to be the case occasionally. 



Poa pratensis. In similar places with the last, and equally, if not 

 more plentiful than it. Var. @. Slender ; leaves long, very narrow ; 

 panicle lax ; spikelets smaller and narrower. P. angustifolia, Linn. ? 

 Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 126, with reference to Ray's Syn. and Morison's 

 Plant. Hist, (cum fig.) P. pratensis, var. II. angustifolia, Gaud. Fl. Helv. 

 ii. p. 259. Frequent in woods and shady places, and apt, I think, to 

 be taken for P. nemoralis. Var. y. P. subccendea, Sm. ? P. pratensis, 

 var. III. strigosa, Gaud. Fl. Helv. ii. p. 260. On wall-tops and other 

 dry, barren places at Thorley, Cowes, Yarmouth, &c. In this the 

 leaves are much shorter than the culm, rigid and subglaucous ; the 

 panicle small, compact; glumes very acute, with mostly three co- 

 piously-webbed florets. A somewhat similar but very dwarf form of 

 P. pratensis abounds on dry sand by the sea at Ryde, &c, with short, 

 flat, rigid leaves, and a short, triangular, spreading panicle. The 

 former of the two has, I conceive, been repeatedly taken for P. com- 

 pressa, as was indeed done by myself; the latter runs a chance of 

 being confounded with P. bulbosa by those unacquainted with the 

 true plant of that name. 



Poa compressa. On dry, barren fields, banks and wall-tops ; rare ? 

 Abundantly in a dry, elevated field above the southern extremity of 

 the park at Swainston, near Rowledge Barn, Dr. T. Bell Salter, Sept. 

 8, 1843 !!! I have not seen it since, or elsewhere in the island. Plen- 

 tiful on a wall in the Cathedral Close, at Winchester, immediately 

 facing the entrance to the Dean's house, as well as on several other 



