322 GRAMINE^. 



The only record, 1688 ; also first as a British plant. Brought down by 

 the river from some chalk district ?.] 



ARRHENATHERUM, Pal. de Beauv. 

 79ft. A. avenaceum, Beauv. Tall Oat Grass. 



Gr. caninum nodosum (Ger.). Gr. caninum avenacea panic, non nodosum 

 (Merr.). Gr. avenac. pan. accrosa sem. papposo (Dill.). Avena elatior 

 (Curt). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 188. Curt. F. L. f. 3. 

 Hedges, banks, and borders of fields ; very common. P. June, and again 



in September. 

 In all the districts. 

 YII. Frequent in Middlesex ; Merr. 50. About London ; S. Syn. iii. 406. 

 [Fields next S. James's wall as ye go to Chelsey ; fields bet. the Tower 

 Hill and RadelifFe ; Ger. 32.] Tottenham ; London Canal ; Cherry 

 (v.s.). Isle of Dogs ! ; Newb. Hackney Wick. Green Park, by 

 Constitution Hill, 1865. 

 First record: Gerarde, 1597. We cannot state the relative abundance of 

 the ' bulbous ' and ' non-bulbous ' varieties. The former seems to be a 

 weed of cultivation. 



TRIODIA, B. Br. 



795. T. decumbeus, Beauv. 



Gr. avetiaceum parv. procuinbens, panic, non aristatis, R. Syn. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. iii. 190. Lowe t. 41. 



Heaths and commons ; rather rare. P. May, June. 



I. Harefield Common ! ; near Battleswell ; Blackst. Fasc. 34. Harrow 



Weald Common, abundant ; Melv. 90. Stanmore Heath, 

 II. Bet. Bushey Park and Teddington ! ; Ncwh. 



III. Drilling Ground, Hounslow. 



IV. Hampstead Heath, 1850; Morris {v.s.). 

 VII. South Heath, Hampstead, abundant. 



First record: Blackstone, 1737. 



KOEHLERIA, Pers. 



796. X. cristata, Pers. 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 191. Lowe t. 29. 

 Dry places ; very rare. P. June. 



II. By the roadside not far from Staines on the Hampton Road, 1866. 

 III. Meadow near Richmond Bridge ! ; Newb. 

 First record: the Authors, 1866. Possibly overlooked elsewhere. 



MELICA, Linn. 



797. 9X. uniflora, Rets. Wood Melic Grass. 



Gr. auenaceum rariori grano ncmorense Danicum (Merr.). Gr. avcii 



nemorense glum. rar. ex fxiseo xerampelinis (Dill., Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 191. Curt. F. L. f. 5. 



