FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 333 
Mr. Tufnail informs me that this, 1 much commoner species on the 
continent than A. odoratum, is sent us by the German seed-growers as 
a substitute for, and sometimes as, the perennial species; farmers in this 
country buying it of the wholesale houses in many cases for the odoratum, 
or in ignorance of the fact that for agricultural purposes it is compara- 
tively worthless—being an annual. The receipt and dissemination of it 
throughout the country dates back a few years only, not much more than 
five or six, increasing as the supply of odoratum seed lessened, facts which 
give us the how and the why of its earlier occurrences, and still growing 
frequency, chiefly in the more highly cultivated county areas. It has 
really no higher claim than that of a casual, constantly renewed, for of 
itself it does not naturalise tenaciously, seldom appearing for more than 
two or three summers in the same field and soon dying out.—F. A. Lees, 
Rep. of Rec. Club, 1883. 
PHALARIS. L. 
P. arundinacea, L. Common Reed Grass. 
Baldingeria, Dmrt. Digraphis, Trin. Calamagrostis colorata, Sib. 
Top. Bot. 473. Syme, E. B. xi. 19. 1697. Nym. 791. 
Native. Paludal. River-, ditch-, pond-, canal-, and brooksides. P. 
June, July. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
Abundant in all the districts except the Stour, in which doubtless it 
occurs. The form picta was gathered by the riverside near Bablock Hithe 
as a native plant. 
* P. canariensis, L. Canary Grass. 
Comp. Cyb. 592. Syme, E. B. xi. 20.1698. Nym. 791. Bx. 56. 
Alien. Waste ground. Rare. A. June—Aug. 
3. Swere. Near the Foundry, 4. Fr. Neithrop, Gull. Near New- 
land Drawbridge, T’. Bees. 
4. Ray. Between Oxford and Summertown, Bz. The Parks, Bx. in 
Purton. 
5. Isis. Behind the Observatory, Sib. Blenheim, Rogers. Near the 
Great Western Railway Station, Oxford. 
6. Thame. St. Clement's, Bx./ Bullingdon. 
Berks. Wootton, near Bagley. 
PHLEUM. L. 
P. pratense, L. Common Catstail Grass. Timothy Grass. 
Top. Bot. 473. Syme, E. B. xi. 32.1706. Nym. 793. Bx. 68. 
Native. Pascual. Pastures, meadows, roadsides. Common in all the 
districts. P. June—Oct. 
First record, Sir Joseph Banks, ‘ N ear Oxford,’ about 1760. 
It occurs in the Parks, Christ Church Meadows, etc. 
