Localities. — In open fields, and heathy places, on a chalky soil. — Oxfordsh. 
Common enough about Oxford : D. Hobart. Woodstock Park: Mr. J.Siieii- 
a n d. Burford Downs: Rev. Dr. Goodenougii. Sliadwell Copse, between 
Cumnor Hurst and Childswell Farm. On the Leys about a mile E. from Upper 
Hey ford. Between Upper Ileyford and Northbrook. Side of the road between 
Witney and Burford ; and between Stonesfield and Woodstock Park : W. B. — 
Beds. Clapham, between Woods: Abbot. Houghton Conquest Park: B.G. — 
Cambridyesh. Hedges and dry fields, remaining green in the driest places where 
other plants are all withered: Relhan. — Jn Derbysh.: N. B.G. — Devon; 
Chudleigh; Ingsdon near Ilsington ; Bovey Tracey; and Ashburton: FI. Dev. 
— Dorset; Common on the chalky Downs; cornfields near the turnpike-gate, 
Weymouth; near Broadway and Blandford : B.G. — Gloucestcrsh. St. Vin- 
cent’s Rocks; and Broadway Hill : B.G. — Kent; Chalk-hills ; Shakspeare's 
Cliff; and Dover Cliffs : N.B.G. Between Radigund’s Abbey and Dover; 
and on Narbourne Downs; B. G. On Shorne Cliff: Rev. G. E. Smith. — 
Lcicestersh. On the Wolds among Furze ; most common on the eastern side of 
the county: Dr. Pui.teney. — Norfolk; Earsham, and elsewhere abont Bun- 
gay: B.G. — Notts; Rather frequent on the magnesian limestone : N.B.G. — 
Somersetsh . At Charlcombe ; and on the Canal-bank near Bathampton : FI. 
Bath. — Suffolk; About Bungay: B.G. — Surrey; Between Dorking and 
Ranmore Common: N.B.G. Shirley Common, near Croydon: Mr. W. 
Pamplin, jun. — Sussex ; Many places on the Downs: N. B.G. — Warwicksh. 
Grafton, and Great Alne: T. Purton, Esq. — Worcestersh. Abundantly in 
almost every pasture of a clayey soil in the neighbourhood of Great Comberton 
and Pershore : Nash. Badsey: T. Purton, Esq. — Yorksh. Near Bramham, 
and Market Weighton: Cave Hole Wood; Giggleswick Scar; under a wall 
near Stackhouse ; near Nunnington, and other places about Castle Howard; 
Byland Wood, near Coxwold ; toad-side between Ferrybridge and Doncaster; 
Walkingham Warren, nearFarnham; about Wetherby, plentifully: N.B.G. 
Thorp Arch; and Roche Abbey: Mr. Baines.— SCOTLAN D. Fifeshire ; 
Near North Queensferry: Mr. Neill. — IRELAND. In hedges near Kinsale : 
Mr. J. Drummond. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July. 
Root fibrous, somewhat creeping. Culms ( stems J from 18 inches 
to 2 feet high or more, upright, roundish, striated, smooth, leafy, 
simple. Leaves somewhat upright, strap-spear-shaped, taper- 
pointed, rather rigid, striated, roughish, and mostly destitute of 
hairs. Sheaths upright, upper ones smooth, lower hairy. Stipulce 
short, blunt, and ciliated. Spike upright, 2-ranked. Spihelets from 
6 to 10, alternate, strap-shaped, upright, sessile ; composed of from 
6 to 12, closely imbricated florets. Glumes (fig. 2.) unequal, spear- 
shaped, nerved, slightly awned. Outer Palea (see fig. 3.) with 5 
or 7 ribs, somewhat hairy at the margin, with a terminal awn, 
shorter than itself, sometimes scarcely any. Inner Palea retuse, its 
margins incurved, with a fringed rib on each side. 
Mr. Sinclair observes, that this Grass cannot as yet be con- 
sidered in any other light than as a noxious weed ; for though the 
weight of produce is considerable, it is neither early, nutritive, or 
relished by cattle. 
