178 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



grass {Gynerium argenteiwi), and, like that plant, 



should be gathered for the purpose before it is fully out. 

 15 18. Milium effusum. Millet-grass. Damp woods, not 



uncommon. Woods, on Hutton Moor; Swinton Burn. 

 1520. Aira csespitosa. Common hair-grass. Wet meadows 



and woods, common. 



1523. A. flexuosa. Wavy hair-grass. Dry waste places, not 



uncommon. Miss Morton found it in great abund- 

 ance at Brimham Rocks. 



1524. A. caryophyilea. Silver hair-grass. £)ry waste places, 



common. 



1526. Avena flavescens. Yellow oat-grass. Dry fields and 



hedge banks, common. 



1527. A. pubescens. Downy oat-grass. Fields, hedge 



banks, and edges of woods. More common than in 

 most places. 



1530. A. fatua. Wild oat. Cornfields, local. Most abund- 



ant on the worse managed farms, and is a fair test of 

 farming. 



1 531. A. eiatior. Common oat-grass. Fields and hedge 



rows, common. 



1532. Hoicus mollis. Creeping soft-grass. Woods and 



waste places, common. 



1533. H. lanatus. Downy soft-grass. Woods, meadows, and 



waste places, common. 



1534. Triodia decumbens. Heath-grass. Moors and dry 



waste places, not common. Between Grewelthorpe 

 and Swinton, on common-like land by the road ; 

 Brimham Rocks (Miss Morton). 



1536. Molinia caerulea. Purple moor-grass. Wet moors or 



dry waste ground, uncommon. Hutton Moor ; 

 Hambledons ; Brimham Rocks (Miss Morton). 



1537. Melica nutans. Wood melic-grass. Shady woods, 



nearly as common as the following. Mackershaw ; 

 Clotherholme ; Hackfall ; &c. 



Trans.Y.N.U., 1883 (pub. 1884). Series E 



