1845 FESTUCA SYLVATICA. 



497 



7 Wilts north. Flower cat. 

 14 Sussex east. Eeeves. 



34 Gloster west. Ley rec. 



35 Monmouth. Ley rec. 



36 Hereford. Purchas ms. 



37 Worcester. Mr. Moseley. 

 39 Stafford. Garner Hist. 

 46 Cardigan. Purchas ms. 

 57 Derby. Whitehead sp. 



63 York s. west. Leyland sp. 



64 m. west. Baker sp. 



65 n. west. Ley rec. 



66 Durham. Backhouse. 



69 Westmoreland ! Gibson. 



70 Cumberland. Baker sp. 



83 Edinburgh. J. Macnab sp. 



87 Perth west. Bot. soc. ed. 



88 mid. Stables sp. 



89 east. (P. B. White). 



91 Kincardine. Dickie G. 



92 Aber. south. Dickie G. 



94 Banff. Northern Flora. 



95 Elgin. Gordon cat. 



96 Easterness. Stables sp. 



97 Western. " Fort Augustus." 

 99 Dunbarton. Hook. Scot. 



[1 3 27 75 77 ; on au- 

 thority hardly sufficient] . I 

 have not seen a specimen 

 from any county to the 

 southward of Derby ; but 

 the personal authorities, as 

 above cited for South Britain, 

 seem to leave no warrant for 

 disbelief in its occurrence 

 there. 



1346 P. elatior. 



P. arundinacea. 



Counties all, except 7 25 36 

 to 48 53 60 69 71 to 74 

 78 80 97 104 to 108. 



N.B. Looking to the specimens 

 in my own herbarium only, 

 I much doubt whether any 



one botanist could separate 

 those named as above, into 

 two quasi-specific groups, to 

 the satisfaction of all other 

 botanists. By comparing 

 their books, lists, and labels, 

 it is made evident that the 

 same botanists, at different 

 dates, have applied both 

 names to the same grass. 

 Moreover pot-culture proves 

 that the great coast grass, to 

 which the name arundinacea 

 has been more especially ap- 

 plied, can be reduced into 

 rather a small state of ordi- 

 nary elatior. See further, 

 the remarks under the next 

 species or couplet of names. 

 To give the names of coun- 

 ties with personal authorities 

 in detail, would less show 

 the distribution of the four 

 grasses themselves, than the 

 use of the four names by in- 

 dividual botanists, too often 

 only the doubting use of 

 them. 



1347 P. pratensis, 

 P. loliacea. 



Counties all, except 82 45 to 

 48 51 60 71 74 78 84 86 

 93 95 to 98 102 104 105 

 107 108 110 112. 



N.B. According to the accepted 

 use of these two names in 

 England, every grade of 

 intermediate form may be 

 found in various places ; and 

 one form of inflorescence 

 can be converted into the 

 other on the self -same root 

 under experimental culture. 

 Unfortunately, a binary 

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