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1276. Phleum Boehmeri, Wibel. 



Ai'ea * * 3 4 [5]. 



South limit in Hei-ts, Suffolk. 



North limit in Norfolk, Cambridge. 



Estimate of provinces 2. Estimate of counties 4. 



Latitude 51 — 53. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, in Ouse. 



Ascends to 50 yards, more or less. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49. 



Native. Glareal. The four counties above mentioned 

 undoubtedly produce this local grass ; that of Gloucester, 

 on the authority of Buckman's Guide, being very probably 

 erroneous. Mr. Prentice writes that, " Phleum Boehmeri 

 is certainly not to be fomid near Cheltenham." — "Phleum 

 asperum is not to be found either at Marl Hill or Bays 

 Hill, the localities indicated for it and P. Boehmeri, by 

 Mr. Buckman." (Phytol. ii. 885). 



Pkleum Michelu, All. 



Area [15]. 



Incognit. Supposed to have been discovered on the 

 mountains of Clova, by George Don; but never found 

 again. Don has the following passage, on this and other 

 grasses, in Headrick's Agricultural Survey of Forfarshire : 

 —"Lately I discovered three other grasses, new to Britain, 

 viz. the Avena plano-culmis of Schrader's Flora Germa- 

 nica, producing a great quantity of foliage; the Aira 

 laevigata ; and the Phleum Michelii, the Phalaris alpina of 



