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1839. Field near Coppid Hall. By the pathway between Sandown 

 and Shanklin, and in a corn-field near Shanklin, towards Luccombe. 

 Hedge-banks near Carpenter's, below St. Helen's, and elsewhere in 

 the island. I am not prepared to give the distribution of this species 

 in mainland Hants from personal observation, but suppose it is not 

 uncommon there. Fields by Down Lane (Fareham), Mr. W. L. Not- 

 cutt. Very apt to be mistaken for B. arvensis. 



Bromus mollis. A most universal and abundant species through- 

 out the county, in meadows, pastures, corn-fields, waste places, by 

 road-sides, &c. Very variable in the degree of pubescence of the 

 leaves and spikelets. 



Bromus racemosus. In just the same places as the last, but some- 

 what less common and universal. Not rare about Ryde, as in fields 

 between that town and Binstead. Fields near Ashey, &c. Abun- 

 dant in meadows on Sandown Level, where I find a variety interme- 

 diate, as it were, between this and the last, with the culms pubescent. 

 1 can hardly believe this to be more than a glabrous state of B. 

 mollis. 



%} Bromus arvensis. In corn-fields and waste places, by road-sides, 

 &c. ; extremely rare, and held to be an introduced and imperfectly 

 naturalized species in all the assigned English stations. Fields near 

 Southampton, Sherard. Corn-field between Netley Abbey and the 

 old fort, 1804 or 1805, Mr. Borrer. Southampton Bay, Hook, and 

 Arn. Brit. Fl. 6th edit, (the same station as the last ? — if not, where 

 is Southton Bay ?). I have never seen Hampshire specimens of this 

 grass. The plants belonging to this section of Bromus, which con- 

 stitutes the genus Serrafalcus, Parlatore, and of the ' Manual,' are 

 kept apart by characters not the most satisfactory to such as seek for 

 broad grounds of distinction in species. 



Brac/iyp odium sylvaticum. Extremely common in moist woods, 

 thickets, groves, copses, and on shady hedge-banks, as well as on dry, 

 elevated and exposed places on downs and heaths, throughout the 

 Isle of Wight, and in most, if not all, parts of mainland Hants. Var. 

 @. Spikes nearly erect. In open, heathy or grassy places on chalk- 

 downs. " On the downs in various places there is a very deceptive- 

 looking Brachypodium, which I suppose is a variety of B. sylvaticum, 

 but it has some of the characters of B. pinnatum, such as the erect, 

 pinnated spike, cylindrical, hairy spikelets (are not those of B. pin- 

 natum usually smoothish ?), and almost glabrous leaves, but then the 

 leaves are broad and the awns long, which are strong characters of B. 



