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time districts that we see no reason to doubt that 

 it exists upon our extensive coast-line, although it 

 may no longer grow where Miss Atwood detected 

 it. VII. VIII. 



940. T. junceum, L. 



Native; on the coast sands of North Somerset at 

 Burnham, Brean, and Kewstoke, locally common. 



VI. VII. 







ELYMUS, Linn. 



941. E. arenarius, L. 



Native ; formerly on the shore of the Bristol Channel 

 near Burnham, and elsewhere ; probably extinct. 



S. " Burnham, Berrow, and Steart, /. C. Collins' 

 MSS." New Bot. Guide. In August, 1880, we 

 found a small quantity in a cove on the coast near 

 Woodspring Priory. The plant grew in a patch of 

 about two square yards on the shingle above high- 

 water mark. At that date the flowering- stems 

 were, many of them, four feet or more high, and 

 bore spikes nearly a foot long. We saw it again 

 in 1881, but on the next visit, in 1884, there was 

 none remaining. Cattle from an adjoining pasture 

 had made their way down the low cliff at the back, 

 and were seemingly answerable for the destruction, 

 by having trampled a path over the spot. 



HORDEUM, Linn. 



942. H. pratense, Huds. Meadow Barley. 



Native ; in moist meadows and grass-fields, common. 

 Extremely abundant in the lowland pastures near 

 the Severn and Bristol Channel, forming a very 

 considerable portion of the crop. 



