694 MR - A - BENNETT ON DESCHAMPSIA SETACEA, RICHTER. 
V. 
DESCHAMPSIA SETACEA, RICHTER, A LITTLE 
KNOWN NORFOLK GRASS. 
By Arthur Bennett. 
Read 2 jth October, 1908. 
In the Rev. K. Trimmer’s Flora of Norfolk (1866), p. 170, is 
recorded “ Aira flexuosa, L. var. A. montana, With. Stratton 
Strawless Heath. B. G.” 
This refers to a record in Mr. D. Stock’s copy of the 
Botanists’ Guide of 1805, which he had written up for Mr. 
Dawson’s Turner’s own annotated copy, and which he lent to 
the author. 
The plant seemed to have been little noticed until Mr. 
Baker in Journal of Botany (1866), p. 176, with a figure of 
the plant, recorded it and suggested its being looked for. In 
the report of the Bot. Ex. Club (1866), p. 14, 1867, it is men- 
tioned “ and should be looked for on swampy moors.” Again 
in Jour, of Botany (1867), p. 72. In that Journal (1869, 265), 
Mr. A. G. More records its discovery in Ireland, and in (1869, 
281) Mr. H. C. Watson records it as growing in abundance at 
Fleet Pond, N. Hants. 
In 1871 I found it on Woking Heath, Surrey, and this 
has been followed by records in altogether 17 counties. 
Hudson in his 3 ed. of his Flora Anglica (1798), p. 35, has 
“ in ericeto Strattonicnsi in comitatu, Norfolk, D. Stillingfleet.” 
Of this there are specimens in Smith’s Herbarium from 
Hudson. 
In the herbarium of the British Museum are specimens from 
Mr. Bryant (Briant) from Cawston Decoy. 
