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flora. Panicle copiously branched or decompound, with very nu- 

 merous spikelets ; culms usually leafy nearly to the top, anthers 

 included. A more delicate and graceful species even than the last, 

 and one of our most beautiful as well as rare grasses, from the silvery 

 green of the panicle, and pale, tender verdure of the leaves. In size 

 it is scarcely inferior to B. media, rising very commonly in our corn- 

 fields from six to eighteen or twenty inches, and I gathered specimens 

 this summer at March wood which were little short of a yard high. 

 The plant tillers like wheat, and sends up frequently numerous culms 

 from the same root, often three, the two lateral exactly of the same 

 size, shorter than the central one, and slightly ascending at bottom. 

 In very tall specimens the summit of the culm is leafless, as in B. 

 media. The stamens appear to me from repeated examination to be 

 either imperfect or wholly wanting in the majority of the lowermost 

 florets of each spikelet, as also the styles. 



Cynosurus crislatus. In dry meadows, pastures, and by road-sides ; 

 abundant everywhere in the county, constituting a large proportion 

 of the crop in our hay-fields and grass-lands. 



C. echinatus it is possible may some day be found in the sea-side 

 pastures of West Hants.* 



Dactylis glomerata. In meadows, pastures, by road-sides and 

 borders of fields, as well as in woods, groves, orchards (thence called 

 Orchard-grass), and other shady places ; a common but valuable grass 

 everywhere. 



Festuca uniglumis. In the loose, sandy shores of the sea, or in 

 dry, barren ground adjacent; rare. In the loose sand of St. Helen's 

 Spit, Isle of Wight, in the greatest abundance, where it was first no- 

 ticed by Mr. Borrer !!! South-west shore of Portsea Island, but not 

 very plentifully. 



Festuca bromoides. Not uncommon on dry, barren ground, walls, 

 and in sandy pastures. Formerly on Ryde Dover, now probably lost. 

 Wall-top in the Spencer Road, Ryde. Calshot Beach, and various 

 other places in the island and on the mainland. Var. fi. Myurus, F. 

 Myurus, Sm. &c, not Linn. Chiefly on walls, but quite rare in Hants. 

 On the walls round the church-yard at Thorley, in tolerable plenty, 

 June 22, 1841, and repeatedly seen there since by myself. On the 



* It is said to have occurred in Kent, and in Sussex (Hastings), but I think has 

 not been found in either county of late years. I have seen specimens (Oct. 21, 1845) 

 in the possession of the Rev. Win. M'cAll, of Brixton, Isle of Wight, gathered under 

 the Hoe, at Plymouth, I believe by the Rev. W. S. Hore. 



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