3 5° FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
Occurs in all the districts and locally abandant. It is found in the 
Parks, and plentifully in Marston fields. It flourishes in the driest 
pasture, and is also found growing in the wet bogs with Hypnum faleatum. 
Poa. L. 
P. pratensis, L. Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass. 
Top. Bot. 492. Syme, E. B. xi. 127.1771. Nym. 834. 
Native. Pascual. Meadows, pastures, waysides, wall-tops, ete. Abun- 
dant in all the districts, occurring plentifully on walls in Oxford. P. 
June, July. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
Var. subcerulea, Gaud. 
1. Stour. Tadmarton Heath. 
4. Ray. Bicester, Bayswater, Elsfield. 
5. Isis. Charlbury, North Leigh. 
6. Thame. Wheatley. 
Berks. Buckland, H. Bos. 
Var. angustifolia, Gaud. 
Gramen pratense paniculatum angustiore folio. From Oxford, Bobart, 
Tilleman, Ray, ii. 1696, see Ray, iii. 409; is not unfrequent in woods, 
especially on the Chilterns, as at Whitchurch, Sunley Wood, Withy 
Coppice, etc. 
P. trivialis, L. Rough-stalked Meadow Grass. 
Top. Bot. 293. Syme, E. B. xi. 129.1773. Nym. 834. 
Native. Pratal, etc. Pastures, meadows, field-borders. Common in 
all the districts, and usually found in shadier and damper situations than 
preceding species. P. June, July. Occurs in the Parks, Christ Church, 
and Magdalen meadows, etc. 
First record, Sid. 1794. 
A form with smaller and paler florets, and smoother leaf sheaths which 
occur in damp woods and shady ditches, is probably P. Koeleri, DC. Is 
this identical with Parnell’s parviflora? 
P. nemoralis, L. Wood Meadow Grass. 
Syme, E. B. xi. 123. 1768. Nym. 834. 
Native. Septal, sylvestral. Hedges, woods. Local. P. April-June. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
Omitted from Top. Bot. Absent or very rare in North Oxfordshire. 
4. Ray. Headington Wick Copse! Magdalen College Walks! H. Bos. 
Beckley, Stow Wood. 
5. Isis. Wychwood! H. Bos. North Leigh, Mill Wood. 
6. Thame, Shady ditchside by sandy lane south of Shotover, see Rep. 
of Rec. Club, 1880. 
