T.ocaiities.— On the sea-roast, in salt marshes, in various places. — Com* 
bridgeshire ; Wisbeach, by the river-side, neara public house called the Anchor: 
Rev. R. Rf.liian. — Cornwall ; In the Vale of Menaehan : N. B. G. — Devon ; 
Exmouth; Parsonage Style, Lympstone: FI. Devon. — Dorsetshire; In the 
waste ground at the back of the Promenade, near Weymouth. On the Chesil 
Beach between the Ferry and Portland ; and on the Cliff between Weymouth 
and l.andsford Castle : Rev. A. Bloxam. — Durham; In Seaton Pasture: Mr. 
Backhouse. In the salt marshes of Tyne, Wear, and Tees: N. J. Winch, 
Esq. — Essex; Walton Marshes: Mag. Nat. Hist. — Gloucestershire ; Salt 
Marsh, below King’s Weston, near Bristol: Or. Stokes. River-side: N. B. G. 
Frequent by the side of the Avon under Cook’s Folly ; also at Sea Mills: T. B. 
Flow in, Esq. — Kent ; Upon the shore, and in dry salt marshes at Dimchurch ; 
upon the shore, Folkstone West: Rev. (j. E. Smith. Thames, by Gravesend; 
Marshes about Northfleet ; and in the Marshes by the Medway, between Cuxton 
and Rochester: Mr. A. Ihving. — Lancashire ; North Shore, by Bank Hall, 
near Liverpool: Dr. Bostock. — Lincolnshire ; Near Friestone: 1826; Dr. 
Howitt, in N. B. G. — Norfolk ; Yarmouth Denes: J. Paget. Breydon 
Bank; and in sandy ground by the river; not uncommon: Hist. Yar. At 
Sheringham : Rev. Dr. Goodenough. — Northumberland ; In the salt marshes 
of Tyne : N. J. Winch, Esq — Somersetshire; At Burnham; Berrow ; and 
Steait: N.B. G. — Suffolk ; At the head of Lowestoft Broad : Mr. Woodwaud. 
— Sussex ; On the sands just above high-water mark near Shoreham : J. D. 
Salmon, in Phyt. — Yorkshire ; Upon banks in the salt marshes at Coatham. 
Boghall, near Whitby : Mr. H. Baines. Humber Bank, near Hull : Aug. 1841; 
J. 11. Thompson, Esq., Magdalen Hall. — WALES. Anylesea ; Between Friars 
and Penmoti, just above the beach ; Ccmlyn and Dulas Bays : Rev. H. Davies. 
— Denbighshire ; Near the coast, E. and W. of Rhyddlan : N. B. G. — Flint- 
shire ; Near the coast both E. and W. of Rhyddlan : N. B. G. — SCO TLAND. 
Edinburghshire; Musselburg Links : N.B. G. — Fifeshire ; Ballast-heaps, St. 
David’s, probably introduced : N. B G. — Haddintonshire ; Salt marshes near 
Aberlady Bay: G. Don. — Kirkcudbright; Arbigland in Galloway : Rev. J. 
Lie h i foot. — Linlithgowshire ; Shore of the Forth, some miles westward of 
Queensferry: Mr. Gentle, in N. B. G. — IRELAND. Near Irishtown; Port- 
marnock ; banks of the river Lee, below Cork ; South Isles of Arran, and other 
places, abundant: Mr. Mackay. 
Annual. — Flowers in July and August. 
Root fibrous. Culms branched, numerous, procumbent at the 
base, from 2 to 8 inches high, round, smooth, jointed, leafy. Leaves 
spreading, strap-shaped, short, pointed, single-ribbed, striated, 
rough on the upper surface, and at the edges. Sheaths slightly 
tumid, striated, smooth. Stipula (ligula) short and blunt. Spikes 
terminal, solitary, from 1 to nearly 3 inches long, more or less 
incurved, cylindrical, smooth. Spihelets (fig. 1.) so closely ad- 
pressed into the alternate hollows of the rachis, except when in 
flower, as to make the spike appear like a continuation of the culm. 
(llumes (see fig. 1. left-hand a.) more or less combined, strap-spear- 
shaped, striated, green, their margins white and membranous. 
Pulcce (see fig. 1 , b. and right-hand a.) whitish, membranous, in- 
curved at the edges, nearly as long as the glumes, and, like them, 
awnless. 
It is sometimes drawn up weak by growing among other grasses, 
the culms are then more slender and upright, and the spikes nearly 
straight. In this state it is the Rotlbollia filiformis of Mr. G. Don, 
and some other authors. It is found at Aberlady, in Scotland ; and 
near Dublin, in Ireland ; and it is thought it may probably be 
the more common variety in the south and east of England, as at 
Gravesend, &c. 
For the specimen figured I am indebted to the kindness of 
J. II. Thompson, Esq. of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. 
