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B. sterilis, Linn. Barren Brome Grass. 
Native : On banks, roadsides, and in pastures. Rather common. 
June, July. 
I. Sutton Park; Erdington ; Middleton ; Kingsbury ; near Colesliill; 
lanes about Shustoke; near Arley Wood; near Knowle; 
Cornel’s End, &c. 
II. Warwick ; Milverton ; Kenilworth, H.B.; Honington ; Tredington ; 
Lambcote, Neivb.; near Bidford ; Oversley ; Stratford-on-Avon ; 
Lapwortli; Leamington ; Southam ; Rugby ; Newbold-on-Avon. 
B. secalinus, Linn. Rye Brome Grass. 
Colonist or casual: In cultivated fields, by roadsides, and on 
railway banks. Local, but widely spread. July to September. 
I. On Dost Hill, near Tamworth, Ray. Cat.; near Over Wliitacre ; 
Colesliill Heath ; Bassett’s Green, near Berkswell. 
II. Beauchamp’s Court, Cougliton, Purt., iii., 10 ; Moreton Morrell, 
r. and B.; Beavington Waste, near Salford Priors ; Oversley, 
near the wood; Binton ; near Stratford-on-Avon ; rick yard, 
Kenilworth; pasture by Newbold-on-Avon. 
b. velutinus, Sm. Rare. 
II. Near Halford, Neivb.; in a quarry near Binton Bridges. 
B. racemosus, Linn. Racemose Brome Grass. 
Native : In meadows and pastures, rarely by roadsides. Local, 
but widely spread. June, July. 
I. Pasture, near Sheldon Church ; Marston Green, in a sandy piece ; 
meadow, near Elmdon ; meadow, near Baulk Lane, Berkswell; 
Holdifast Grange Farm, Erdington. 
II. Honington; Tredington, Neivb.; on the new embankment near 
Brown’s Over, Blox., N. B. G. S.; lane near Exhall; Salford 
Priors ; Beavington Waste, near Salford Priors; Binton ; 
Redhill; pastures, near Farnborougli; Wawen’s Moor, near 
Wootton Wawen. 
B. commutatus, clirad. Confused Brome Grass. 
Native: In pastures, meadows, and by roadsides. Local. June, 
July. 
I. Meadows by Blythe Bridge, Solihull; Earlswood Reservoir. 
II. Honington Park; Tredington, Newb.; Radway, near Edge Hills; 
Asliorne, path to Oakley Wood; Binton Bridges; Redhill; 
Billesley ; near Studley Railway Station ; roadsides between 
Brandon and Brinklow. 
b. pubescens. Very rare. 
II. Roadsides near Redhill. 
The three foregoing grasses are often difficult to discriminate ; all 
my specimens, however, have been carefully compared with typical 
specimens given to me by the late Hewett C. W r atson. 
Var. multiflorus , Parnell. 
II. On roadsides and in cultivated fields. Abundant in 1879. 
This is a marked variety, midway between B. commutatus and 
B. mollis. Prof. Babington considers it to be var. multijiorus, of 
Parnell. 
B. mollis, Linn. Soft Brome Grass. 
Native: On banks, roadsides, pastures, and meadows. Very common. 
June to August. Area general. 
The variety b. glabrescens occurs frequently with the type, more 
especially on sandy banks, railway banks, and sandy roadsides. 
[Geratochloa unioloides, DC. Mr. Bromwich finds this occasionally 
near the skin yards at Kenilworth, probably introduced with 
foreign skins.] 
(To be continued.) 
