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sylvaticum. This plant appears to be nearly intermediate between 

 the two." (Mr. Wm. Wilson Saunders in litt, July, 1841). 



The above remarks of my friend Mr. Saunders apply to a plant I 

 had long and repeatedly observed in dry, open, hilly places in various 

 parts of the island, and which I had always looked upon as a variety 

 of B. sylvaticum, differing merely in its more erect or less drooping 

 spikelets, and such Mr. Mitten, who received specimens from me, 

 considers it. The variety occurs abundantly on the slopes of our 

 downs at Bonchurch ; between Shorwell and Brixton ; behind the 

 Tolt Copse, near Gatcombe ; near Hampstead ; by Yarmouth, &c. 

 It is certainly different in aspect and character from the genuine B. 

 pinnatum, which I have not succeeded in finding in this county, al- 

 though from its frequency in most of the adjoining ones I cannot but 

 think it must soon be forthcoming in Hants. Our var. /3. I have seen 

 in many places across the water, and gathered it plentifully at the 

 back of Box Hill in August last. 



The inner pale in the florets of B. sylvaticum overlaps and incloses 

 two of the stamens, and the ovary, leaving the scale (nectary, Sm.), 

 which is deeply cloven almost to the base, and the remaining stamen 

 between the pales, free ; this third and outer stamen lies in and ex- 

 actly fills the space left between the inflexed edges of the inner pale. 



Triticum caninum. In woods, thickets, hedges, and on banks, &c, 

 particularly chalk or limestone, and in shady situations ; to myself 

 appearing quite uncommon in Hants, as I think I have heard Mr. 

 Borrer say it is in Sussex. I cannot quote a single habitat for this 

 species in the Isle of Wight from my own observation, and as I un- 

 derstand the plant, but Dr. Salter finds what he considers T. caninum 

 plentifully in hedges between Holm Wood and Aldermoor Mill, near 

 Ryde, as also between Havant and Leigh Park. In Akender Wood, 

 near Alton, July 13, 1850. Butler's Copse, by Hambledon, Aug. 8, 

 1850. Thick hedgerow a few hundred yards east of Nettlebed Farm, 

 near Alresford ; in all three stations quite sparingly, and in company 

 with Hordeum sylvaticum (Elymus europaeus), of which it has much 

 of the aspect. At all times readily distinguishable from every variety 

 of the two following by its fibrous root, fewer (three to five) ribbed 

 florets, and very long, wavy awns, that give it a remarkably bristly ap- 

 pearance. 



Triticum repens. On hedge-banks, borders of fields, in waste and 

 cultivated places, woods, &c. A very common and often extremely 

 troublesome grass. Var. (3. littorea. Whole plant more or less glau- 



