TWO GRASSES NEW TO THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 85 
expected to occur there also. That it has been overlooked through 
its likeness to P. canariensis is certain, for it is incredible that 
@ casual should appear in the same year or the first time in 
considerable quantity in many parts of two islands which are as 
ar apart from one another as Dover is from Calais. 
Babington recorded P. canariensis as “ “ naturalized in several 
now believes that this was P. minor. I have often on P. canari- 
ensis in gardens in Guernsey, but all the specimens from sandy 
ground by the coast which I examined last summer were P. minor. 
In Townsend's Flora of Hants, p. 402, Mr. Marqu “aa recorded P. 
canariensis a8 growing ‘‘in the sand at Mudeford, well established.” 
In a le ta to me he one that it was “ growing abu mys aye 
Minium soaprum Merlet de la Boulaye, Herbor. Maine et Loire, 
— 220 (1809), 
Syn. M. confertum Mill. Gard. Diet. gig non L. 
M. confertum Guss. Fl. Sic . i, 181 (1842). 
M. effusum B, Kunth, Enum. 5 Te i. 66 (1888). 
M. vernale Dub. et al. (non Bieb.), teste Nyman. 
nnual. Root fibrous. Stems erect or ascending, 14-4 in. 
sheath. Sheaths strongly striate, somewhat inflated. Ligule long, 
acute. Panicle about 1 in. lo g, erect, contracted ; branches short, 
2-nate, unequal, capillary, flexuous. Spikelets ovoid, 1 li g 
h, shining; it 
palea. Stem, sheaths, a panicle-branches, and outer glumes 
all slightly scabrid 
se — the Plate—1, Spikelet; 2, fertile glume; 3, palea—are magnified eight 
im 
Distebuton reg to Nyman.—Batav. ; Belg. (sec. Parl.) ; 
Gall. oce. mer. ; Cor Sicil. Tala ed. mer.; Crete et reg 8 
mont. x Heldr. Richter gives et a. med. om mer.,” which 1 
again insulicien Pe 
I ms impossible to distinguish M. scabrum specifically from 
M. ver sad Bieb., which only differs j in its larger size and diffuse 
panicle. It is said also to fe less scabrous, but M. scabrum vari ries 
the ves it as Me effusum, but appears to be = 
M, vernale, like M, scabrum, is an annoal, an 
