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cous ; florets with or without awns (Host. Gram. Aust. iv. p. 5, t. 9, 

 and perhaps also his T. glaucum, p. 6, t. 10). Abundant under the 

 shore at Apley, and along the coast at the Priory, Sea View, &c. 

 Under Apley walks the plant may be found exhibiting every grada- 

 tion between the awned and unawned states, and of every shade of 

 colour between the usual inland green and the intensest blue or glau- 

 cescent tinge, which it generally contracts by the sea. Wicor Hard ; 

 Cams shore ; the Salterns (all near Fareham) : Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



Triticum junceum. On sandy banks, hillocks, and waste ground 

 by the sea-beach, along with var. (3. of the preceding. Very fine on 

 the shore a little east of Ryde, beyond Apley House. Sandy shore 

 at the Priory. In great abundance on the loose sand of Norton Spit, 

 and in many other places. The characters given for discriminating 

 this from the preceding, both being themselves prone to exhibit great 

 inconstancy in the very points adduced as arguments for their sepa- 

 ration, are just such as may be created by the modifying influences of 

 soil and situation. My own belief is, that T. junceum is but a sea- 

 side variety of T. repens, whilst T. caninum is to all appearance truly 

 distinct from either. 



Lolium perenne. Plentiful everywhere in meadows, pastures, waste 

 ground, corn-fields, by road-sides, &c. Var. &. Spikes branched. In 

 the Spencer Road, Ryde, Dr. T. Bell Salter ! who finds this com- 

 pound form extremely common about Ryde, on the Dover, between 

 Ryde and Ashey, as well as elsewhere. 



t Lolium multiflorum. In cultivated fields, and on banks, &c. ; 

 rare, and probably either naturalized by direct importation with 

 foreign grass-seed, or an annual or biennial state of L. perenne, pro- 

 duced by culture, as suggested by the authors of the sixth edition of 

 the ' British Flora.' In a clover-field near Fernhill, Aug. 1841. Plen- 

 tiful and with very long awns along a private path to Brooklands (the 

 Rev. Augustus Hewitt's) from Binstead, Dr. T. Bell Salter !!! 



Lolium temidentum. In corn-fields, chiefly amongst wheat and 

 barley, but certainly not common in the county, at least in this island, 

 nor have I chanced to fall in with it myself. Between Lake and 

 Sandown, Dr. T. Bell Salter, Sept. 1838 (two species only) !! Amongst 

 barley at Whitcombe, near Newport, Mr. Wm. Hughes !! Corn-fields 

 about Yarmouth, the late Mr. Joseph Squire ; and Thorley, Mr. R. 

 Gibbs ! W. A. Bromfield. 



Eastmount, Ryde, Isle of Wight. 



(To be continued). 



