THE SEEDS OF ANTHOXANTHUM. 49 
3 _. Rare. Pepperstock.—P. undulatum L. Local. Aspley, 
Adam 
Aeadjenegiith sen hey sL.— A. eat L. Elongate forms, six 
inches long, in fruit at pe mites! eee 
Hypnum aduncum Hedw. Rare se itwick. — H. Kneiffii, Bry. 
Kur. Locally abundant. " Limbury ; ; Flitwick. Barren. — H. 
exannulatum Gimb. Rare. Flitwick.—H. Sendtnert Schpr. Rare. 
Totternhoe Mead. — H. fluitans L. Not uncommon. In 
Flitwick Marsh, 1883.— H. jilicinum L. Abundant; c.f. by a 
rivulet, Limbury, 1882.—H. commutatum Hedw. Local. Sharpen- 
hoe; Hockcliffe. ——H., cupressiforme L. b. tectorum ee C ea ee 
Bry. Kur.—H. cupressiforme d. ericetorum, Bry. E Loca Asp- 
ley ; Chiltern Green.—H. resupinatum ils.--H ‘ ‘mollsane gree 
eF.— d ; 
chrysophyllum Bnd. Local. Chiltern Hills.—-H. stellatum Schreb. 
Local. Limbury; Heath and Reach.—H. cordafolium Hedw. In 
fruit, Flitwick ihieoh, 1883, C. Hamson and J. 8. — H. cuspidatum 
bi 1 Schreier Ehrh, — H. purum L.—H. stramineum Dicks. 
k 
Alylocomium splendens s Dill. — Ad, triquetrum Lied: squarrosum 
L.; ¢,f. Luton Hoo Park, 1882. 
The foregoing moss li ihe is practically the first for South Beds., 
as Abbott’s Flora has no localities further south than Barton Hills, 
which are nine or ten miles from the extreme south of the county. 
In addition to the preceding the Sli have been found in the 
north of Bedfordshire. 
Encalypta vulgaris Hedw. Oakl r. Davi 
issidens crassipes and Oinclatoous fe wing te Hedw. On sub- 
merged masonry, Bramham. 
Cryphea heteromalla Hedw Turney, Rev. H. Higgin 
Rhynchostegium tenellum Dicks. Near Bedford, De. hia 
THE SEEDS OF ANTHOXANTHUM. 
By Witu1am Carrutuers, F.R.8.* 
Sweet Vernal Grass Fem > odoratum L.) is one of 
_ widely epee of our indigenous grasses. Iti 
erennial, and deserves a sees Sioagh not an important ak 
in pieoahene pasties 
But the benefits it may give to a pasture are entirely wanting 
from the allied species, the seeds of which are very largely sold in 
its stead. This plant, A. Puelii Lec. & Lam., is an annual grass, 
n 
countries it is an introduced or an indigenous plant I have not the 
means of determining. It is a smaller and more delicate grass, 
* Reprinted by permission from the Journal of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, 1883. 
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