FIRST EECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 475 P. sylvatica Vill. Dauph. ii. 105 (1786). 1800. *' In a moist wooded valley at the foot of Ben Lawers, 1793, Mr. Mackay." — Sm. Fl. Brit. i. 121. { F. calamaria:') P. pratensis Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. i. 37 (1762). 1670. "Gra- men pauiculatum elatius, paniculis seu spicis muticis squaniosis. . . . In pratis." — Ray Cat. 153. P. arundinacea Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. 57 (1771), [F. elatior, Auct. Angl.). 1688. a D. Sam. Doody . . . ad ripas Thamesis fluvii inter Londinum et Ghelseiam observatum ad nos siccum trans- missum est." — Ray Hist. ii. 1909. Bromus giganteus L. Sp. PL 77 (1753). 1688. Fulhanaiae prope Londinum, in aggere inter locum excensionis e cymbis & Episcopale palatium a D. Doody observatum ostensum & ad nos transmissum est." — Ray Hist. ii. 1909. B. ramosus Huds. i. 40 (1762), B. asper Murr. (1772). 1634. " Gramen avenaceum lanuginosum glumis rarioribus longis. Hairy Haver-grasse." — Johns. Merc. Bot. 40. B. erectus Huds. i. 39 (1762). 1690. " Festuca Avenacea sterilis spicis erectis. In the hedges beyond Botley near Oxford " (Bobart).— Ray Syn. i. 237. B. madritensis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 114 (1762). 1778. /'In muris antiquis ; circa Londinum et Oxonium." — Huds. ed. ii. 50. " Near Battersea Church " [B. diandnis). — Curtis, Fl. Lond. vi. t. 5 (1794). B. sterilis L. Sp. PI. 77 (1753). 1597. ** Bromos sterilis."— Ger. 69. B. moUis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 112 (1762). 1641. Gramen Bromoides vernum spicis erectis. Early meadow Drauk, or Darnell- grasse." — Johns. Merc. Bot. pars alt. 22. Brachypodium sylvaticum Roem. et Schult. Syst. ii. 741 (1817). 1629. " Gram. spicaeBrizse mains Bauh." — Johns. Eric. B. pinnatum Beauv. Agr. 101 (1812).— 1696. "In copses and hedges common enough about Oxford, D. Bobart." — Ray Syn. ii. 248. Lolium perenne L. Sp. PI. 83 (1753). 1548. "Phenix Dioscoridis . . . called in Cabrigshire Way bent." — Turn. Names D V. back. Compare Turn. Herb. ii. 17. L. temulentum L. Sp. PI. 83 (1753). 1548. " Lolium . . . Darnell groweth amonge the corne and the corne goeth out of kynde into Darnel." — Turn. Names, E ii. Triticum caninum L. Sp. PI. 86 (1753). 1690. " Gramen caninum aristatum radice non repente sylvaticum. Found plenti- fully growing in Stoken-Church Woods" (Bobart). — Ray Syn. i. 235. T. repens L. Sp. PI. 86 (1753). 1597. " In gardens and arable grounds as an infirmitie and plague." — Ger. 22. T. pungens Pers. Syn. i. 109 (1805). 1860. " Sea-shores, common." — Babington in Fl. Cambs. p. 310. T. acutum DC. Bot. Gall. 529 (1828). 1856. Sandy sea- sliores, probably not rare." — Bab. Man. ed. 4,412 (T. laxum); cf. Bab. Fl. Cambs. p. 310. 2 I 2
