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garden-wall of Wolverton, by Shorwell, 1839. Wall at East Cowes, 

 June, 1837. Not remarked on the mainland. Said not to be the 

 Linnean F. Myurus, nor of continental botanists. In appearance this, 

 the Capontail-grass, is very distinct from the commoner state of the 

 species. 



Festuca ovina. In dry, barren and especially elevated pastures 

 and heathy places ; common throughout the county and Isle of Wight. 

 Abundant on the high downs. Var. (S. duriuscula. Equally frequent. 

 Var. y. rubra, F. rubra, L. In loose sand by the sea, and in sandy 

 pastures, I think frequent. On St. Helen's and Norton Spits, Isle of 

 Wight, &c. A mere creeping-rooted state of F. ovina, as I am now 

 quite convinced of its being. 



Festuca pratensis. In moist meadows, pastures, on banks, by 

 road-sides, &c. ; frequent. Plentiful by the road-side between Ryde 

 and Ashey, at the upper end of Rosemary Lane, if it be not rather the 

 inland state of the last. Var. @. loliacea, F. loliacea, Sm. Wet mea- 

 dows, not common. In a marshy meadow called Pan Moor, just out 

 of Newport, towards Shide. Abundant in meadows at Easton, Fresh- 

 water Gate, where it may be seen passing into F. pratensis, which 

 abounds there. Whitwell. Meadow by the stream-side a little be- 

 low Calbourne Mill. By the side of the Medina, between Newport 

 and Shide, Mr. W. D. Snooke in Fl. Vect. !!! Now very properly 

 reduced by common consent to a variety of F. pratensis. 



Festuca arundinacea (F. elatior, Sm. an Linn. ?). On the banks of 

 rivers, and in moist meadows and pastures, also on the moist, sandy 

 sea-beach, and wet banks along the shore ; rare. Upper end of San- 

 down Bay, near the foot of the Culver Cliffs, in plenty. Abundant 

 on the wet, slipped land under the cliffs at the mouth of Luccombe 

 Chine, on the Shanklin side. I have not met with this species as yet 

 on the mainland. Of this tall and stout grass Mr. H. C. Watson, who 

 had also remarked it at Luccombe, writes, March, 1842 : — " There is 

 a large Festuca by the shore at the entrance of Luccombe Chine, 

 going thither from Shanklin Chine, which has puzzled me a good deal. 

 A root now in my garden, I believe to have been brought from that 

 spot, produces leaves near a yard long, and a culm of five feet high, 

 with very numerous spikelets, much more ovate than those of F. pra- 

 tensis, and with the glumes and paleae more acute and slightly awned. 

 I fancy this to be the F. arundinacea of continental botanists." I 

 have seen the same plant at Exmouth and Plymouth. Having neg- 

 lected to examine this plant for some years, I cannot speak to the di- 

 varicate state of the branches of the panicle after flowering, given by 



