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Report’ for 1876, where it is said to be abundant and well established. 
Mr. Bagnall does not mention the ‘ Compendium Cybele,’ but 
probably he refers to the same record for Warwickshire as the one 
given in that work on the authority of Mr. Kirk. In the seventies Mr. 
Brotherston of Kelso found it in localities extending over many miles 
of country in Roxburgh and Berwick, and I have seen it from 
Ayrshire, where it grew, I was informed, in a wood, and to all 
appearance wild. Mr. Brotherston was of opinion that it was wild in 
his district. I will now describe its situation in Berkshire. The 
wood where I found it is not a recent plantation, but is more likely 
a remnant of what was in former times a woodland tract. All 
the other species which occur in the wood are certainly native. 
Among these is Ornithogalum pyrenaicum. The wood, which is only 
a narrow strip, does not appear to have been used as a game preserve. 
I can obtain no evidence of anyone having sown seeds there or 
scattered them for feeding game. Indeed Miss Beale, who lives in 
the neighbourhood, tells me she thinks it distinctly improbable that 
it can have been sown there. Mr. Tufnail, of Messrs. Sutton, of 
Reading, informs me that he knows nothing of any seeds of Poa 
Chaixii being sent from their establishment, as they do not sell it. 
Sometimes seeds are found mixed with seeds of Poa nemoralis as 
imported, but there is no quantity of P. nemoralis in the wood and 
what does occur is our ordinary Berkshire form as it is found in the 
neighbourhood. In the wood Poa Chaixii was very plentiful, and 
at a distance suggested Milium in a luxuriant growth. As I got 
nearer I thought it was Festuca sylvatica (and in Scotland I can 
imagine this grass being occasionally passed over for the Festuca , 
of which it has more of the habit than that of a Poa). It forms 
considerable tussocks, and is a very attractive grass. I gave a 
description of the place of growth (which is as I have said in a 
narrow wood, in the midst of arable fields, on the bare chalk, in which 
little besides scanty corn crops or mustard is grown. Its nearest 
railway station is four miles away) to Professor Hackel, and he says 
there is no reason to doubt the indigenous condition of Poa Chaixii 
in England, this species being common in Denmark (var. remota ) 
and Belgium. It may be, he says, that in certain points in England it 
is adventitious, but in others it can be indigenous. Nyman records it 
from Norway, Sw r eden, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, etc. 
The Berkshire locality I think belongs to the latter category. — 
G. Claridge Druce. 
Glycerin plicata , Frq var. declmata (Breb.)? Bradwell Old Moor, 
Derbyshire, 27th August 1896. — W. R. Linton. 
Festuca glauca , Hackel. St. Bee’s Head, Cumberland, 13th June 
1896. — Joseph Adair. 
F Sands of St. Aubyn’s Bay, Jersey, iSth June 1896. — 
L. V. Lester. 
