242, FESTUCA ORARIA. 
from Sweden (Prof. T. Tales) unnamed; but ripe fruit is a 
desideratum for sere determination. 
P. pusillus, L.; var. (P. panormitanus, Bivoni).—Mr. H. Mennell 
has gathered this ile Clapham, in Yorkshire, making a second 
British station. 
FESTUCA ORARIA, Dumortimr. 
By F. Townsenn, M.A., F.L.S. 
In the 1881 Report of the Botanical Exchange ae ae Boswell 
is said to have sent specimens of Festuca arenaria, brescens, 
F. oraria, Dumort., from Burntisland, Fife, which Prof, ps es on 
would call ‘ rubra.” is remind hat Mr C. Watson 
of uiiortier 
A few months eon I saw, in Dr. Bromfield’s herbarium at 
Bye specimens named by Mr. A. G. More F. oraria, Dumort., 
m St. Helen’s Spit, Isle of Wight, and Mr. More gives this 
einem as an ea one for the Isle of Wight in his Suppl. to 
‘FL. Vectens ‘Journal of Botany,’ 1871. I should ¢ 
Mr. More’s epbaiiests decidedly “‘ rubra,” and I have  athared 
a pars plant myself on St. Helen’s Ng T have no spher record 
of true F’. oraria as a Hampshire plan 
ii the Royal Hraetaeia at Bdinbargh there are excellent and 
ypical pees mens of Festuca oraria from the sands of Barri 
ortase b y Mr. J. Knapp in July, 1837, a: together with other 
remarks of his, accompanyin g the specimens, he writes, ‘“ retains 
its character in cultivation.” The late Mr. F. M. Webb informed 
me that Mr. Knapp was an Edinburgh physician, who made the 
rita his especial study, and watched them under cultivation. 
We have therefore conflicting statements as to the behaviour of 
this grass under sbehdeeae and this circumstance, combined igs 
the two above instances of the same plant being named by o 
botanist F’. oraria, aA ten other F’. rubra, would i induce us eH 
form an opinion that Mr. Watson’ 8 Geharinant is not a conclusive 
proof that /’. oraria is not distinct from F’. rubra 
A ier ke who has seen F’. oraria srowing spontaneously, 
and has ced its long and stout soboles and other marked 
characters, Toate find it “difficult to believe that it ait pass into 
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