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F. AMBiGUA Le Gall, was recorded from "sandy ground 

 close to Grouville Station " by Mr. T. B. Blow in the Eeport 

 of Bot. Loo. Eec. Club, 1876, p. 184. 



32. Catapodium Lini. 



1. C. LOLiACEUM Link. (Festuca roitbcbllioides Kunth.) 



Native. Rocks and sandy fields near tbe sea. Frequent. 

 May to July. 



Common on the sands of St. Aubin's and St. Oaen's Bays. 

 Cliffs at St. John's. The Eorfehos Rocks. 

 Guernsey. Alderney. Sark. France. 



33. ScLEEOPOA Griseb. 



1. S. RIGIDA Griseb. (Festuca Kunth. Scleeoohloa Reiohb.) 



Native. Walls and dry, sandy places. Frequent. June, 

 July. 



Common in the sandy bays. The Quenvais. Walls in St. 

 Heher's and at Samares. 

 Guernsey. Alderney. France. 



34. Brojius L. 

 1. B. madkitbnsis L. 



Native. Sands and dry places on the coast. Yery local. 

 May, June. 



On the islet called Janvrin's Tomb in Portelet Bay. 

 Near Gorey. Mr. J. W. White, Report of Bot. Exch. Club, 

 1896. ]\It. Orgueil Castle. 



Guernsey (very local). Sark. -7. W. White. Normandy (one 

 certain locality). W. France (common, if Lloyd understood 

 the plant). S. and W. Europe, as far north as Wales and 

 Oxford. 



" Found by Dr. Sherard on the sandy grounds in Jersey 

 plentifully," if the identification of Ray's plant is correct. 

 His description runs (Syn., p. 413, cf. the plate on p. 374) : 

 "Festuca Avenacea sterihs paniculis confertis erectioribus, 

 aristis brevioribus, Syn. ii. 261. 4. sterilis humillima, spica 

 unam partem spectante Pet. Cone. Gr. n. 101." 



The Jersey plant is var. rigidus Bab., and is distinguished 

 by the pubescent (not scabrid) glumes and pedicels — a very 

 shght variation. Babington's account of this and the suc- 

 ceeding species is clear and good. B. rigidus Roth, is, 



