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4. A. strigosa, (Schreb.) strigose Oat-grass. Engl. Bot. t. 1266. 

 Bam. Gr. t, 26. 



Locality. Corn-fields and cultivated ground. A. El. July, 

 Area, * * * 4t 3 * 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Monkton Farley, in the neighbourhood of 

 quarried or newly broken ground. Very local in Wilts, and prob- 

 ably an introduced species, unknown in a wild state. Very much 

 like A. saliva but readily distinguished from it, as well as from A. 

 fatua, whether as a variety or species, by the florets, ending in two 



long bristles. 



5. A. fatua, (Linn.) wild Oat-grass. Haver. Fatmis, (Lat.) 

 means literally insipid. Engl. Bot. t. 2221. Bam. Gr. t. 37. 



Locality. Corn-fields. A. Fl. July. Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, in all 

 the Districts, occasionally among barley. Stems 2 to 3 feet high. 

 Leaves spreading flat, linear, finely ribbed. Ligule obtuse or emar- 

 ginate. Banicle large,and spreading. Spikelets drooping or pendulous. 

 Flowers smaller than the glumes, with long fulvous hairs at their 

 base, by which it mav be distinguished from A. saliva, the cultivated 

 Oat. Awn of each floret long and twisted, very hygrometrical. 

 The resemblance of the flowers, or rather of the awned fruits, to 

 some of the artificial flies used by anglers, is so striking, that they 

 are occasionally employed as substitutes. 



Aeehenatherum, (Pal de Beauv) Oat-like-grass. 

 Linn. CI. iii. Ord. ii. 



Name. From (arrhen,) male, and (ather,) a point, the barren 

 floret having a long awn. 



1. A. avenaceum (Beauv) common Oat-like-grass. Holcus, Sm. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 813. Bam. Gr. t. 25. 



Locality. Hedges, fields, and waste ground. B. Fl. June. 

 Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 



Recorded in all the Districts. Height 2 to 3 feet. Root fibrous, 

 knotty, downy, from the swollen joints to the base of the stem. 

 Stem tall, smooth, leafy, often bent at the lower joints. Leaves 

 rough-edged with long striated sheaths. Banicle erect, a little 



