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local. Near Porchester, and at several places in Portsea Island, Hants; 
Plumstead Practice Ground, immediately to the south of the butts, 
and near Erith, Kent; near the "World's End," Canvey Island, 
Essex, and found by Ray in the same county near Purfleet and a 
mile and a half above Tilbury Fort ; Cley and Brancaster, Norfolk ; 
near St. Sampson's, Guernsey. It has occurred as a casual by the 
Berkley Canal, Gloucester; and on the ballast heaps about Sunderland, 
Durham; and St. David's, Fife. 
England. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Plant ofrowinjr in tufts with numerous stems, which are frequently 
somewhat decumbent and geniculate and occasionally branched at 
the base in luxuriant examples, from 3 inches to 4 feet high. Leaves 
1 to 6 inches long by | to | inch broad, with numerous slender very 
scabrous unequal ribs, ])ale green: sheaths smooth, the uppermost 
one swollen ; ligulc long, laciniate. Spike i to 6 inches long, more 
distinctly lobed in the larger examples than in the smaller. Spikelets, 
exclutiive of the awns, inch long, (ilumes membranous, whitish, 
with a green stripe from the base of tlie awn halfway to the base on 
each side of the keel. Awns white, giving a silky appearance to the 
panicle, especially in the larger examples. M. Godron, in the " Fl. 
de France," and Professor Parlatore, in Fl. Italiana," describe the 
glumes as entire; they are not so in the dried British, nor in any 
foreign specimens that I have examined, but I have not had fresh 
examples to see if the glumes were entire in such. The apical lobes 
of the glumes, however, are much shorter and blunter than in P. 
maritiinus ( WiUd), which is a subspecies of P. iMonspeliensis, which 
has not been detected in Britain. 
In P. Monspeliensis the lower pales are half as long as the glumes, 
and the outer pales may be found with and without awns, and with 
awns of different lengths even in the same panicle: but most of the 
pales have either a short or comparatively long awn, while in P. 
icaritimus the awn seems to be always wanting. 
Annual Beard Grass. 
SPECIES II-POLYPOGON LITTORALIS. Sm. 
Plate MDGCXIV. 
7?"/-/i. Te. Fl. Go™, er Heir. V...1. T. Tab. XCIL Fig. 17± 
Il^llx^ Fl. Gall, ft Gvrm. Ex>icc. No. '1169. 
P. LagM.=ica>. n-:rr.. & ,i.-l,;if <, Sy^r. Vo^. Vol. II. p. GiO. 
AiTvo^tU lirtoi-ali:=. Sm. En-. Boz. ed. i. Xo. 1251. 
A. lutosa. P..;,: Diet. Suppl. Tul. I. p. 
Perennial. Root.-tock creeping, producing tufts of stems and barren 
shoots. Panicle rather dense, with separated spreading branches 
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