192 86. GRAMINA. 



Native. Sylvestral. Frequent in England ; much less 

 so in Scotland, and apparently quite partially distributed 

 there. I am not aware of any recorded locality for it in 

 the West or North Highlands ; nor is it included in the 

 lists for Orkney or Hebrides. But still farther northward, 

 in Shetland, one or two localities are given in words that 

 leave the number of distinct stations uncertain ; namely, 

 " Burn of Sunda banks, near Scalloway." Perhaps there 

 should have been a stop after " Sunda," to separate it 

 from "banks" ; and if so, there would seem to be two or 

 more stations in Shetland. But this far outljing habitat, 

 on a single juvenile authority, cannot very safely be 

 trusted, unless it shall be du-ectly verified, by another 

 botanist, or indii-ectly confirmed by the discovery of the 

 plant elsewhere in the North Isles or North Highlands. 

 Still, some of the stations in the East Highlands seem to 

 be in a climate scarcely superior to that of Shetland ; for 

 example, the "Falls of Lawers" ; thus reducing the ob- 

 jection to one of distance and isolation only. The two 

 British gi-asses that would seem most likely to be mista- 

 ken for Melica uniflora by a juvenile botanist, are MeHca 

 nutans and Briza media, neither of them included in the 

 Flora of Shetland ; but either of them as likely to be 

 found in those islands, if it were a question of anticipation 

 only, and the answer were to be founded on their geogi-a- 

 phical areas. 



1318. Melica nutans, Linn. /-u. /*.,T/^ 



Area [1 2 3 4] 5 * [7] 8 [9] 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. 



South limit in Monmouth, Nottingham. 



North limit in Eoss, Aberdeen, Argyle. 



Estimate of provinces 10. Estimate of counties 25. 



