84 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
In the Plate—1, Spikelet; 2, rudimentary glume; 3, fertile glume—are 
magnified four times. 
A tecatiga according to lagen aes eD Gall. occ. 
mer.; Ligu tal. med. mer Cro : Attica; 
Algeria ; Bu eis Corinth : Cye aa Or eta “the rac. or. Richter 
(Plante Europea, 1890) only gives ‘ Regio wuehiaanck” which 
is certainly insufficient. 
P. minor is distinguished from P. canariensis by the narrowel 
shorter leaves, more cylindric area and smaller spikelets; by 
the wing of the keel of the ou r glumes, which, though very 
variable in the same panicle, is on ae ever entire, and does not 
extend more than half-way down the keel; and by the presence of 
only one ey glume, much musilas Sronoracianl than 
those of P. ¢ 
In Grenier k Godron’s Flore de France (iii. 488, 489 (1855-56) ) 
it is stated that the stem ant os minor are ** lon guement nus au 
sommet,’ while those of P. riensis are ‘‘ briévement nus au 
sommet.” I find that this Saceeke is aa eh varying 
pa ae in both specie 
arqua see who is working at a Flora of Guernsey 
and the smaller islands, first called my attention to P. minor in 
Alderney last July, thinking that it was only a casual. It was 
for it in Guernsey, and found it in several places; in good quantity 
in coed cultivated fields by the sea, and twice sparingly on the 
sandy shore. 
The plant is not uncommon on the west coast of France. Lloyd 
(Flore de UV’ Ouest de France, 898 (1886) ) records it as occurring in 
cultivated fields, and especially gardens, in all the emrgtoe 
departments from Vendée to Lle- oe Vilaine, where it grow 
St. Malo and St. Briac, amongst other places. Corbiére (Flore de 
Mivcaaak 626 (1894)) states that he has found it himself in 
sandy fields on the coast near Barfleur and Cherbourg, and accepts 
it as a native, though it is very rare so far north. Grenier & 
Godron give a long list - we including Barfleur, with no 
uestion as to its being native. Being a native of both sides of 
bay in which the acta are pitunted; i it might naturally be 
