236 MR. A. BENNETT ON HOLOSTEUM UMBELLATUM, L., 
Wibel.” Nyman l.c. says the Wibel’s plant is a var. of 
pratensis ; if this is so, of course Wibel’ s name cannot be used. 
Although the grass has been discovered in one or two localities 
in late years, yet it is really decreasing, as it is certainly gone 
in some of the Cambridge localities ; in the old localities in 
Herts it is gone, and I could not find it on the Bartlow Hills 
in Essex, but these have been partly returfed by the owner, 
and access to them denied to the public. It is still in fair 
quantity at Hildersham, Cambs, where I gathered it on 
June 12th, 1905. Some of the specimens had the spikes 
lobed, and if the spike is drawn through the fingers the reverse 
way, this is at once shown, and will separate it from P. 
pratense at a glance. In Boehmeri the nodes are pale, scarcely 
darker than the rest of the stem, while in pratense they are 
much darker. 
First Record. “ Phalaris phleoides on Newmarket Heath.” 
Relhan FI. Cantab., 23, 1785. In his 3rd ed. (1820) he does 
not mention this locality. 
Purple-stalked Cat’s taii.-grass. 
Cat’s-tail Canary grass. With. ed. 7. 142, 1830. 
19. Essex N. 
On the Bartlow Hills near Linton. Prof. Henslow in 
Gibson’s FI. Essex, 361, 1862. 
Near Saffron Walden. J. Backhouse, 1846, in herb. C. E. 
Salmon. 
20. Herts. 
Near the Hertford Union Workhouse on the steep gravelly 
bank of the road to Stanstead, and in the plantation, now 
scarce but probably more plentiful before the spot was 
planted. 
In a gravel pit between Holwell and Hatfield. Coleman 
and Webb. FI. Herts, 325, 1849. 
Between Wilbury Hill and Ickleford. Blow and Groves, sp. 
26. Suffolk W. 
Chalk pits and heaths S. of Eriswell. F. Townsend, 
Phytologist, 2, 584, 1846. 
Codson Hill near Eriswell. Sir C. J. F. Bunbury, sp. 1846. 
Mildenhall on the northern part of the Warren Hill near 
