354. FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
5. Isis. Woodstock Park ! J. Sherard in Ray, iii. 1724, also Sib. 1794. 
Burford Downs! Dr. Goodenough in Sm. Fl. Br. Chipping Nor- 
ton, Charlbury, A. Fr. Between Witney and Burford! Between 
Stonesfield and Woodstock, Bx. Leafield, H. Bos. Charlbury, 
Handborough, Coombe, Wootton, Ditchley, Lyneham, Spilsbury, 
Bampton, Clanfield, Brize Norton, Tainton. 
6. Thame. Littlemore, H. F. Garnsey. Holton Quarries, Bullingdon. 
References to Oxford are numerous, e.g. Huds., Ray, ed. ii. and iii., 
Withering, Sm. Fl. Br., Bot. Guide, Sir J. Smith, Mon. Trans. Lin. Soc., 
vol. iv., 1798. Knapp’s Grasses ‘profusely between Cirencester and Oxford 
and Buckingham and Middleton Stoney !’ 
In New Bot. Guide the Upper Heyford locality is by mistake entered 
under Northamptonshire. In Sibthorp Sherard’s locality is given, and the 
plant called Festuca pinnata. 
Berks. Cumnor, Bessilsleigh. Northants, Gloster E., Warwick (?). 
LOLIUM. L. 
*#L. temulentum, Z. Bearded Darnel. 
Comp. Cyb. 405. Syme, E. B. xi. 187. 1876. Nym. 844. 
Colonist. Agrestal. Cornfields. Very rare. A. June~Aug. 
First record, W. Baxter, 1812. 
3. Swere. In a back-garden, Cherwell St., Banbury, springing up 
where hemp seeds used for feeding birds had been littered. LD. 
arvense, W., pastures West Adderbury, ‘ doubtful if this or deformed 
perenne, A. Fr. . 
5. Isis. ‘I found this grass on 25th Aug. 1812 by the side of the foot- 
path leading from Church Handborough to Eynsham,’ W. Be. 
6. Thame. Cowley field. LZ. arvense, Bu. in Walk., Syme, E. B. xi. 
188. 1817. 
The extra care in cleaning seed-wheat has almost extirpated this noxious 
weed, and to the same cause we probably owe the decrease of Caucalis 
daucoides, Buplewrum rotundifolium, Adonis, and Delphinium. 
* ZL. italicum, A. Br. Italian Rye Grass. 
Syme, E. B. xi. 186.1815. Nym. 844. 
Alien. Cultivated fields and waste ground. June. 
4. Ray. LElsfield, Mesopotamia, Marston. 
5. Isis. Stonesfield. 
6. Thame. Shotover, H. Bos. 1860. Near Iffley. 
7. Thames. Goring, etc. 
First introduced as a Fodder Grass in 1831, . . . DL. multiflorum, Lam., 
and cultivated forms of the next species are found among seed crops. 
L. perenne, DL. Darnel. 
Top. Bot. 504. Syme, HE. B. xi. 185.1814. Nym. 845. Bx. 116. 
