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newly-dissevered species (from G. fluitans) of Fries, I am as yet prac- 

 tically unacquainted, but from the description of the assigned dis- 

 tinctions, the diversity of opinion respecting its claims, and above all, 

 from the remarks in the sixth edition of the ' British Flora,' I should 

 fear G. plicata was one of those species that so abound in the pages 

 of systematic botanists, but ignored in the volume of Nature's own 

 inditing. 



SclerocJiloa mariiima (Poa maritima). In moist pastures by the 

 sea, and in salt-marshes ; common along the Hampshire coast, and in 

 several parts of the Isle of Wight. Shores of Yarmouth Harbour, 

 above the mill. Plentiful in the salt-marshes at Newtown, and very 

 fine about the edges of the brine-pits, &c. In abundance by Yar- 

 mouth and Brading, Mr. W. D. Snooke in Fl. Vect. !!! The Salterns 

 (Fareham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Common along the western coast of 

 the county. Var. @. Stem diffuse, almost prostrate ; branches strongly 

 deflexed ; Fl. Dan. xiii. t. 2222 ? (P. distans). At the farthest ex- 

 tremity of St. Helen's Spit, on the beach near the inn. This I ga- 

 thered (now several years back) for P. distans, but Mr. Borrer regards 

 it rather as a form of the present species. 



Sclerochloa distans (Poa distans). In sandy pastures and waste 

 ground, chiefly near the sea. Plentiful in the marsh-meadows be- 

 hind Ryde Dover. Between Yarmouth and Thorley, in a wet spot at 

 the eastern end of Stopler's Copse, Oct. 5, 1845. Salt-marshes at 

 Lymington. Along the terrace-walk by the shore at the bottom of 

 Pelham Fields, Ryde, abundantly, Rev. G. E. Smith !!! 



SclerocJiloa Borreri. In muddy salt-marshes, about the edges of 

 the drains and ditches. In the ooze ofUhe ditch on Ryde Dover, at 

 the end of Monkton Street, in the rear of the engine-house, sparingly. 

 Abundant in the first meadow, or that nearest the sea, at Freshwater 

 Gate. Newtown marshes, and on the marsh-meadows behind Ryde 

 Dover, along with S. distans and procumbens, but not observed 

 plentifully, July 21, 1844. The figure, together with the description 

 by Mr. Babington (the founder of the species), of this grass in E. B. 

 Suppl. 2797, are most excellent. At Freshwater, Mr. Borrer, who 

 also finds it along the opposite mainland coast, at Stoke's Bay, Gos- 

 port and Southton. 



Sclerochloa procumbens (Poa procumbens). In similar places with 

 the three foregoing species ; likewise on waste ground, and at the foot 

 of walls, houses, &c, near the sea ; not uncommon. In the marsh- 

 meadows at the back of Ryde Dover, but not abundant there, July, 

 1844. In the lower part of Dover Street, about the edges of the 



