MR. A. BENNETT ON DESCHAMPSIA SETACEA, RICHTER. 695 
The Rev. H. Bryant was Rector of Colby, born in 17211 
lie died in iygg. He was A.L.S. in 1795, and discovered 
Tillcea muscosa in 1766. 
I know of no records ol its occurrence in Norfolk since these 
dates, and I have never seen it myself in the county. 
I he plant has been known under many names, I give those 
used in English books. 
Aira setacea, Hudson. FI. Ang. (1762), 30. 
A. flexuosa, 3. Smith. FI. Brit. 1 (1S00), 85. 
A. scalio-setacea, Knapp. Gram. Brit. t. 32, 1804. 
A. uliginosa, Don. Trans. Highland Soc. of Scot. vii. 
(1807), 194. 
A. uliginosa ,Weihe in Boenninghausen’s Prod. FI. Monast. 
(1824), 25. 
Deschampsia discolor, Roem et Sell. Sys. ii. (1817), p. 986 . 
DESCHAMPSIA SETACEA, Richter in Plant. Europ, i. (1890), 
P- 57 - 
1 his should be sought for again ; its chief difference from 
1). flexuosa is its long acute ligule. the smooth sheaths, and 
according to Babington the “ pedicel of second flower quite 
equalling half its length,” while in flexuosa “ pedicel of second 
flower less than quarter of its length.” 
Besides these technical characters it grows on swampy 
heaths, the leaves are nearly all radical and quite subulate, 
and very numerous, and it has a less graceful appearance 
than flexuosa. 
The specimen figured by Knapp was sent from Forfar Heath 
by G. Don of the Dovehillock near Forfar, some time before 
1804. The figure t. 1733 in English Botany, 3 ed. (1872), 
p. 68 is very good. Syme makes it a sub-species of Aira 
flexuosa , L. 
* Biog. Index of Brit, and Irish Botanists (1893) p. 26. 
