Localities. — Tn corn-fields, by way-sides, and in places where water has 
stagnated in the winter; usually near the sea, but not common. — Devon; By 
the Parsonage Style, Lympstone ; Babbacome ClifFs : Mr. Jacob. Nearlnstow: 
Mr. Curtis. — Dorset; Fields by Radipole, near Weymouth: Dr. Pueteney. 
Near Weymouth Turnpike Gate : Dr. Maton. — Essex; Little Braddow : W. 
Christy. In woods near Great Leighs, about half way between Chelmsford 
and Baintree : Mag. Nat Hist. — Gloucestersh. St. Vincent’s Kocks, near the 
Dot Wells : Mr. Dyer. — Hamj)sh. Near Hyde. Isle of Wight : Mr. J. Woods, 
jun. In most parts of the Isle of Wight, but chiefly on a clayey soil ; it is com- 
monly found amongst corn, clover, in hay-fields, on hedge-banks, and by way- 
sides, as also in waste places; in some seasons it is so abundant as to be a 
troublesome weed among the crops: Dr. W. Arnold Bromfield; 1841. — 
Kent; Plentiful in the Isle of Shcpey : Hudson. Rochester: N. J. Wincii, 
Esq. — Norfolk; Corn-fields at Gillingham: Mr. Woodward. At Cley: Mr. 
Hose. — In Somersetshire : Dr. Garter, in N. B.G. — Sussex; In corn-fields 
at Hurstperpoint ; Clayton; Portslade ; Dare; and West Grinstead, on a 
clayey soil : W. Bour.er, Esq. In a corn-field in the way from the High Rocks, 
Tunbiidge Wells, to Eridge Rocks: T. FoRSiEn, Esq. In a corn-field (had 
been wheat) at Westfield, in great abundance; Sept. 16, 1841: Mr. Edward 
Jenner, of Lewes, Sussex. Groombridge, and other places about Hastings: 
N. J. Winch, Esq. — Warwickshire; In a coin-field near Alcester: Rev. A. 
Bloxaiu. — W A LES. Denbighshire ; Pastures east of Merllin Farm House, in 
the patish of Llanyfydd : Mr. Griffith. — Flintshire ; About Trellewelin Farm, 
in the parish of Rhyddlan: Mr. Griffith. 
Annual. — Flowers in August. 
Root of many short, slender fibres. Culm ( stem ) upright, from 
6 inches to a foot or a foot and a half high, branched from the 
bottom, smooth, leafy. Leaves rough at the edges, with roughish, 
striated, slightly tumid sheaths. Stipula ( ligula ) oblong, torn 
when old. Panicle upright, lobed, but very close, tapering, from 
an inch and a half to three inches and a half long, and a quarter 
of an inch to half an inch broad, pale green, glossy; with roughish 
and angular partial stalks. Flowers small, pale green. Calyx tumid 
polished and colourless at the base ; its glumes compressed, mem- 
branous at the edges, rough at the keel (see figs. 1 & 2) ; one of 
them longest, and most pointed, but not a wned. Corolla (see fig. 3.) 
much smaller; its outer palea egg-shaped, concave, blunt, downy, 
with a jointed, rough, twisting, dorsal awn, rather longer than the 
calyx, deciduous ; inner palea smaller, cloven, hairy at the base. 
Anthers short. Seed coated with the hardened corolla, and en- 
veloped in the shining calyx. 
As well as of England it is also a native of Portugal, and the 
south of France. 
I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. W. A. Bromfield, of 
Hyde, Isle of Wight, for many very fine specimens of this grass, 
from one of which the drawing for the accompanying plate was 
made; 1 hey were gathered, by Dr. Bromfield, between Quarr 
Abbey and Fishbourne, near Ryde, in a field abounding also with 
the rare Briza minor. Mr. E. Jenner also has sent me fine spe- 
cimens of it from a corn-field near Westfield, Sussex. 
