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quantities in rich clayey soil on the banks of streams and rivers. 

 It is a very conspicuous grass on the island in the Kalu-ganga, 

 where the railway crosses it at Kalutara, in company with 

 Ph rag mites Roxburgh ii. 



183. Eragrostis plumosa, Link. Poa plumosa, Retz. Kth. 

 Enum. 1 p. 338, cum syn. P. vis cos a, Kth, 1. c. p. 336. An P. 

 ciliaris, Linn.? C. P. 70, 926, 927, (928). Hab. Very common 

 in the warmer parts of the island, and an extremely variable 

 plant. The above is copied verbatim from the En. PI. Zeyl. p. 

 373. Several forms of this delicate grass are well known to 

 me, and they are abundant all over the maritime parts of the 

 island, but I feel that 1 cannot do better than refer to Sir W. 

 Munro's remarks on the identification of the grasses of Linneus' 

 Herbarium in Lin. Soc. Jl. 6 p. 43 on Poa amabilis, Linn, 

 and P. tenella. The specimen collected by Hermann in Ceylon 

 in 1660-7, and described by Liuneus in the Flora Zeylanica No. 

 46, was examined by me in the British Museum in 1857. 



184. Ccelachne pulchella, R. Br. Isachne simpliciuscula, 

 W. and A. This is a small grass very common in marshy 

 places, and especially in paddy fields in the Western and 

 Central Provinces. 



185. Ccelachne perpi^silla, Tkw. Isachne perpusilla, Arn. 

 Central Province in bogs, at an elevation of 5,000 to 7,000 feet. 

 Very common in similar places with the former. They are 

 both too small to be of much use as fodder, 



186. iELUROPUS lagopodioides, Trln. Dactylis lagopo- 

 dioicles, Linn. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 12. fig. 2. Given as com- 

 mon on sandy ground near the sea. Specimens sent by 

 E. Wytealingam from Mullaittivu. 



Dactylis glomerata, Linn, is said to occur at Nuwara Eliya, 

 but has no doubt been introduced. I found Anthoxanthum 

 odoratum, L. also in the Nuwara Eliya plain in 1879. 



187. Lophatherum gracile, Brongn. L. Lehmanni, N. ab 



