y6. GBAlVnNA. 14' 



stray plant or seeds [" an escape from tlie Botanic Gar- 

 den"] at no very distant date." — Thomas Meehan ; Kew, 

 April 7, 1847. (Phytol. ii. 811). 



1265. DiGITARIA HUMIFUSA, PeVS. 



Area *234***** [10]. 



South limit in Hants, Siu'rey. 



North limit in Norfolk, Suffolk. 



Estimate of provinces 3. Estimate of counties 4. 



Latitude 50 — 53. Local (Germ.) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Liferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Channel. 



Ascends to 50 yards, more or less. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 49. 



Denizen. Glareal. IVIisuamed D. sanguinalis until a 

 recent date; and no stations appear to be known cer- 

 tainly for this species in any other county than those 

 above mentioned. Although a local plant, its occurrence 

 plentifully in several distant stations gives rise to a pre- 

 sumption in favour of its nativity. In one station in 

 Surrey, recorded several years ago, this gi-ass is now very 

 rare, except in the gardens adjacent to the still unen- 

 closed portion of the sandy heath on which it gi-ew appa- 

 rently wild, between the town and station of Weybridge. 

 In Yorkshire, according to Hooker and Arnott; but not 

 in Baines' Flora of that county. Also, in Sussex, on the 

 same testimony ; but I know of no authority for this 

 latter county, except an error in a former edition of the 

 British Flora, wliich placed Wej^bridge in Sussex, instead 

 of Surrey ; — a sort of contrast to another error, under the 

 present species, in the sixth edition, which places Ipswich 

 out of Suffolk. 



