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FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE 
More robust, with rough leaf sheaths and more strongly-toothed 
spikelets rachis and pedicels, ligule more prominent, and flowering 
nearly a month later than A. vulgaris. 
A. vulgaris, With. Common Bent Grass. 
Native: In pastures, meadows, roadsides, and banks. Common. 
June, July. Area general. 
h. pumila. Rare. Wet sandy places. 
I. Above Blackroot Pool, Sutton Park; wet sandy roadsides near 
Stonebridge. 
II. Lye Green! Herb. Perry. Honily, II. B.! Haseley Common; 
Sitch field, Chesterton; near Hatton, II. B. 
CALAMAGROSTIS. 
C. Epigejos, Both. Wood I mall Reed. 
Native: In woods and shady damp places. Local. July. 
I. Upper stew in Edgbaston Park, With., ed. 7, 197 ; small wood near 
Tyburn, F. Terry! wood at Walmley, J. B. Stone! Colesliill 
Pool; Arley Wood. 
II. Dunington; Salford; Wetherly, rnrt. i., 178; woods at Alcester, 
Blox.; Allesley, Bree, Mag. Nat. Hist. iii., 163 ; Brandon Wood ; 
near Arbury Hall, T. Kirk , Phyt. ii., 972; Stoneleigh, T. K ., 
Herb. Brit. Mus.; Moreton Morrell, Y. and B.; Tachbrook and 
Harbury; Liglithorn Roughs; Grove Park! H. B.; between 
Shipston and Darlingcote, Newb.; Alveston Pastures; Warwick 
Old Park ; Chesterton Wood ; Oversley Wood ; Old Park Wood, 
Ragley ; Bearley Bushes; Combe Woods ; Prince Thorpe Wood ; 
Ufton Wood ; Wayland Coppice. 
C. lanceolata, Both. Purple-flowered Small Beed. 
Native : In damp woods and near pools. Very rare. July. 
I. Olton Pool, J. Bagnall, Herb. Brit. Mas. 
II. Near Griff, T. Kirk, Herb. Brit. Mus.; Binley Bogs, T. K., Herb. 
Perry; Ufton Wood. 
PHRAGMITES. 
P. communis, Trill. Common Beed. 
Native : On river banks, near pools, and in damp shady places, &c. 
Locally abundant. August, September. 
I. Near Sutton ; near Polesworth ; Bole Hall, Tamworth ; Plant’s 
Brook Reservoir ; near Water Orton railway cutting ; footway 
from Marston Green to Elmdon; Olton Pool; canal bank 
between Baddesley Clinton and Baker’s Lane, near Knowle. 
II. Honington ; Tredington, Newb., near Bilton! Wolston ! R.S.B., 
1877 ; Alveston Pastures; Stratford-on-Avon ; Oversley ; Claver- 
don; Eastern Green, near Coventry; Kenilworth; Warwick; 
Tachbrook; banks of the Learn, Leamington; canal from 
Radford Semele, near Quinton Mills; Pool in Combe Abbey 
Grounds. 
MILIUM. 
M. effusum, Linn. Wood Millet Grass. 
Native: In woods and on shady banks. Local. May, June. 
I. Arley Wood ; Kingsbury Wood ; Bentley Park ; Hartsliill Hayes ; 
Meriden Shafts ; Spring Coppice, Hockley. 
