86. GRAMINA. 595 
‘ Catalogue of Plants collected in South Kent’ cannot have been 
the species of the northern mountains so named. But, as Sir 
James Smith evidently intended the name to belong to the 
glaucous Poa of the mountains, it is here taken to express the 
aggregate species; Smith’s variety cesia (Eng. Flo. i. 128) being 
a segregate divergent in one direction, and the Balfourit apparently 
a segregate diverging towards nemoralis in a contrary direction. 
But truly, after abstracting these two, it is difficult to say what is 
left of glauca for a typical segregate. I understand from Dr. Bos- 
well Syme, that he holds the Poa cesia figured in English Botany, 
no. 1719, to be quite distinct from Smith’s glauca. Unfortunately 
for myself, while writing these latter pages of my ‘Compendium’ 
I am ahead of the third edition of ‘ English Botany,’ and thus lose 
its great help in doing so. Possibly what I mean by cesta may 
truly be typical glauca in the views of Dr. Syme. 
Eragrostis pogoides, Beauv. 
Province - 9. Near Birkenhead, Chester; F. M. Webb. 
Casual. In a new made road; E. C. rep. 1862. 
Cynosurus echinatus, Linn. 
Provinces 12 8----891011--14---18. 
Casual. Cypb. iii. 214. Sown with seeds of clover, etc. 
Festuca ambigua, “‘ Le Gall. in Flore de Morbihan.” 
Province - 2. Isle of Wight; A. G. More! 
Native. ‘“ Eng. Bot. Supp. 2970.” 
Festuca (ovina) tenuifolia, Sibth. 
Provinces 12 83--6----11---15. Elsewhere also? 
Syn. 1842. Ihave not kept special notes for this variety. Other 
forms of F’. ovina are recorded in books as segregate species or 
varieties —(N.B. Since the Synopsis was printed, I have learned 
from Dr. Boswell Syme, that a slightly creeping pratal and pascual 
Festuca, frequent in Surrey and elsewhere, which I have always 
considered to be the duriuscula, is really what various Authors 
intend by the name rubra. This cannot well have been Smith’s 
idea of rubra, which he locates on the mountains and sandy sea- 
coast, not in the low inland fields of southern England. I doubt 
much whether the creeping rubra (or sabulicola) of the sea-coast 
has any actual reappearance on “alpine precipices.” See the Flora 
of Middlesex, page 329; the F’. duriuscula of that well worked out 
Flora is apparently the same thing with the Surrey grass here 
alluded to, and which I separate alike from inland ovina and from 
coast rubra.) 
Festuca (sylvatica) decidua, Sm. 
Province- 15. Perthshire; G. Don. Eng. bot. 2266. 
Syn. 1345. Reduced to a variety in Eng. flo. i. 146. 
