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b. angustifolia. More rare. 
I. Coppice near Minwortli. 
II. Wall tops, Oversley Village ; Oversley Wood ; Ragley Wood. 
P. compressa, Linn. Flat-stemmed Meadow Grass. 
Native: On old walls, banks, ruins, and in cultivated land. Local. 
July. 
I. Maxtoke Priory ruins ; old walls near Fillongley Hall; banks near 
Oldbury Hall; cornfields near Cornels End ; lane near Meriden 
Shafts ; Waste Lane, Berkswell; old walls near Balsall Heath. 
II. Chesterton ! Taclibrook, Y. and B.; house tops about Harborough- 
Magna, Rev. A. Blox; on walls, Marl Cliff ; Bidford; Oversley; 
Wilmcote ; Bearley ; in fields, Spernal Ash, and Great Alne; 
wall, Red Hill, near Alc.ester ; on walls near Stratford-on-Avon ; 
quarry near Little Lawford ; pastures, Newbold-on-Avon. 
b. polynoda, Parn. 
II. Brick Hill Lane, Coventry, T. K., Herb. Brit. Mm.; railway cutting 
near Henley-in-Arden ; old walls, Wootton Wawen ; Binton; 
old walls, Shottery ; Tredington Village. 
P. pratensis, Linn. Smooth Meadow Grass. 
Native : In fields, pastures, on banks, wall tops, Ac. Very common. 
May, June. Area general. 
Var. b. angustifolia , Gaud. Rare. 
II. Marly banks near Prince Thorpe ; banks near Moreton Bagot. 
Var. c. subccernlea , Sm. 
On heaths, heathy roadsides, and wall tops, more or less frequent 
throughout the county. 
Var. d. strigosa , Gaud. Rare or overlooked. 
II. On old walls near Bidford. 
P. trivialis, Linn. Rough Meadow Grass. 
Native : In woods, shady places, on banks, and in meadows, Ac. 
Common. June, July. Area general. 
Var.. b. Kbhleri , DC. Very rare or overlooked. 
II. Oversley Wood. 
A very singular and marked variety of P. trivialis, having smaller 
flowers and more compact panicles than the type. A marked form of 
/'. trivialis also occurs in sandy fields near Wilmcote ; this I have not 
yet been able to assign to its proper place. 
[/'. sudetica, Haenke, is abundant and well established in a coppice 
near Leek Wootton (see Exchange Club Report, 1876), but is not more 
than an alien or casual weed.] 
ERIZA. 
B. media, Linn. Common Quaking Grass. 
Native : In pastures, by roadsides, and rarely on damp heath lands. 
Rather local. July. 
I. Sutton Park, on damp heath lands; roadsides near Penns; 
Bircliley Heath ; Water Orton ; near Knowle and Solihull, Ac. 
