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This is a tall form, often four feet high, with spikes six or more 
inches long, growing singly, and usually thinly scattered on the 
borders of cornfields. 
GASTRIDITJM. 
G. lendigerum, Gaud. Aioned Nitgrass. 
Colonist: On the borders of cultivated fields. Very rare, and of 
uncertain occurrence. July. 
II. Cornfields near Alcester, Biox. N.B.G.S. ; Hampton-on-the-Hill; 
Grove Park ; Norton Lindsay; Wilmcote; King’s Lane, 
Stratford-on-Avon, Herb. Ferry ; Taclibrook, H.B. ! 
POLYPOGON. 
[P. monspeliensis, Desv. Annual Beard Grass. 
Casual: In waste heathy places. Pare, July. 
II. Kenilworth Heath, Dr. St. Brody !] 
Probably brought with foreign skins. 
AGROSTIS. 
[A. spica-venti, Linn. Spreading Silky Bent Grass. 
Casual: On the borders of corn fields. Very rare. July. 
II. Saltisford, J.G.P., Herb. Perry ! Abundant in sandy corn fields, 
Milverton, H.B. J 
A casual of uncertain occurrence. 
A. canina, Linn. Brown Bent Grass. 
Native : In damp woods and copses, and on damp roadsides. Local 
but widely spread. June, July. 
I. Sutton Park ; New Park, Middleton ; Heatliland, Atherstone Out- 
woods; Bentley Park ; roadsides near and in Ironstone Wood, 
Oldbury ; Bannersley Pool; marshy coppice near Packington ; 
damp roadsides Brockhill Lane, near Balsall Street; Temple 
Balsall; Olton Pool. 
II. Woodloes ! Haywoods ! Y. and B.; Haseley ; Rounsel Lane, II. B.; 
marshy coppice near Kingswood ; Old Park, Kagley. 
A. alba, Linn. White Squitch. Marsh Bent Grass. 
Native: In damp places by roadsides, pastures, and meadows. 
Common. June, July. 
I. Sutton Park ; Middleton ; Temple Balsall; Arley, &c. 
II. Chesterton Wood ; Alveston Heath ; Wilmcote ; near YVootton 
Wawen ; canal, Newbold-on-Avon, &c. 
b. stolonifera. Rare. 
II. On sandy banks, old railway cutting near Henley-in-Arden. 
A. nigra, With. Black Squitch; Black Bent Grass. 
Native: On the borders of cultivated fields, railway sidings, old 
brickyards and waysides. Local, but widely spread. July, 
August. 
I. Sutton Park, on railway sidings abundant; in like places at Penns 
and Castle Bromwich ; lane by The Grange, Erdington ; borders 
of fields, near Bentley and Hartshill; Tamwortli; Temple 
Balsall; brickyard near Berkswell Station ; fields, Meriden, Ac. 
II. Borders of fields near Itcliington ; marly banks near Chesterton 
Wood; borders of fields, Alveston Heath; Wilmcote; fields 
and lanes, Ragley and Alcester ; Tile Hill; Allesley; Kenil¬ 
worth ; Stoneleigli. 
