86. GRAMINA. 593 
Stipa pennata, Linn. 
Provinces -- 3-10-12. Midx. York. Westm. Cumb. 
Error. Cyb. iii. 183. See the Flora of Middlesex on the record 
for that county. The following extract from a letter written by 
Mr. Tatham, in 1845, is suggestive of error somewhere ;—“ I have 
wild specimens gathered in Westmoreland by the late J. Gough, of 
Kendal; and having these I did not keep, but gave away, the 
specimens I had sent me from Rumbolds Moor, by 8. Gibson; it 
grew near the pathway between Ilkley and Keighley, and I have 
no reason whatever to doubt its correctness.” (See under Geranium 
macrorhizum, page 495, as to Samuel Gibson.) 
Agrostis (vulgaris) pumila, Light. 
Provinces 1 - 8---7-9101112-1415 1617 18. 
Syn. 1291. Somerset; Flower. Middlesex; T. & D. flo. TI have 
myself never met with it in the southern counties. 
Agrostis (alba) stolonifera, Linn. 
Provinces 12345-7-910. 18. Orkney? 
Syn. 1292. A name of rather loose application. (Subsequent 
experience has led me to distrust my own notes, made in years 
past, on the localities of canina, vulgaris, and alba, with their 
subordinate varieties; probably somewhat confused together in at 
least the earlier years of my botanical wanderings.) 
Aira (flexuosa) uliginosa, Weihe. 
Provinces - 234-15. Hants! Surrey! Norf. Forf. Kine. 
Syn. 1302. [Cheshire? Lancashire?] This appears to be suffi- 
ciently distinguishable from the 4. fleruosa of dry heaths, by site 
and by characters. Shown by Dr. Trimen to be the variety 
setacea of Hudson’s Flora Anglica; but it seems most unadvisable 
to create confusion in the specific name by which this is now 
known, through substituting a discarded varietal name. 
Lagurus ovatus, Linn. 
Province -- 3. Near Saffron Walden, probably sown there. 
Extinct Casual? Cyb. iii. 182. Gibson’s Flora of Essex, p. 367. 
Avena strigosa, Linn. 
Provinces all? Rare in England, more frequent in Scotland. 
Colonist-Casual. Cyb. iii. 184. An ancient introduction into 
France; Godron Consid. Originally from the Caucasian countries ; 
De Cand. geogr. bot. rais. 
Avena (pratensis) alpina, Sm. 
Province- 15. Forfar; G. Don. Perth? York? 
Syn. 1309. Cyb. ii. 185. The counties to be indicated for this 
segregate may be said to depend on the degree of divergence from 
ordinary pratensis, which is enough to warrant the application of 
Smith’s specific name alpina. I should apply the same name to 
the plants seen above the road on the Perthshire side of the Pass 
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