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864 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. Rev. Mr. H. Davies."— Sm. Fl. Brit. i. 82 (1800). As to Lobel's reported Essex locality (Lob. 111. 20), see Gibson's Fl. Essex, 360. Agrostis setacea Curtis, Fl. Lond. vi. 12 (1798). 1778. " Supra Hall Down prope Exeter." — Huds. ed. 2, 31 {A. canina, var. y.) A. canina L. Sp. PL 62 (1753). 1762. "In pratis humidis frequens." — Huds. ed. 1, 26. A. alba L. Sp. PL 63 (1753). 1716. " Gramen miliaceum majus panicula spadicea .... in dry hilly pastures." — Petiver, Cone. Gram. no. 118. A. vulgaris With. Bot. Arr. ed. 3, ii. 132 (1796). 1670. " Gramen pratense vulgare spica fere arundinacea ... in pascuis nihil vulgarius est hoc gramine." — Ray Cat. 154. Polypogon monspeliensis Desf. Fl. Atl. i. 67 (1798). 1605. " Riguis herbidis Comitatus Zout-hamptoniae proxime sahnas & antiquas aedes Drayton vocatas . . . . cis mare duobus miliaribus Anglicis a Portsmouth, ex adverso Vectis Insulse plurima; . . . . Hunc quoque vdis [udis] fossis lacustribusq : Essexiensis comitatus legi, juxta Thamesis amoenissima fluenta." — Lobel, Adversaria, pars alt. 469. P. littoralis Sm. Comp. Fl. Brit. ed. 2, 13 (1816). 1641. " Lagopus perpusillus supinus perelegans maritimus, provenit prope castrum South- Sea Castle miliare Anglico a Portsmouth ad l^vam, unciam vix sequans, nullibi antea vidi." — Johns. Merc. Bot. pars alt. 24. Calamagrostis Epigejos Roth, Tent. i. 34 (1788). 1640. " Reede grasse of Saint Johns wood." — Park. Theatr. 1180. C. lanceolata Roth, Tent. i. 34 (1788). 1716. The first discovery of this grass is owing to Mr. John Scampton a Curious Botanist, who sent it me from Leicestershire." — Petiver, Cone. Gram. n. 69. Gastridium australe Beauv. Agrost. 21 (1812). 1690. " Gramen serotinum arvense panicula contractiore pyramidali . . . Inter segetes locis prsecipue ubi aquae aliquandiu stagnant." — Ray Syn. i. 190. "About Thorndon, Essex. Mr. Hill."— Blackst. Spec. 33 (1746). Apera Spica- venti Beauv. Agrost. 31 (1812). 1632. " Agrorum venti spica. Lob." — Johns. Kent, 30. A. interrupta Beauv. Agrost. 31 (1812). 1848. "Gathered on June 9, 1848, near Thetford (Suffolk), by the Rev. W. W. New- bould."— Ann. Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. ii. 149. Deyeuxia strigosa Kunth, Rev. Gram. 77 (1829). 1885. Found by Robert Dick at Loch Duran, in Caithness. — Journ. Bot. 1885, 253. D. neglecta Kunth, Rev. Gram. 76 (1829). 1810. "Dis- covered by Mr. G. Don, in June, 1807, in a marsh called the White Mire, a mile from Forfar."— E. B. 2160 (" Arundo stricta"). Ammophila arundinacea Host, Gram. Austr. iv. 24 (1809). 1562. " Spartum ... A kinde of sea bente or sea rishe whereof the frayles are made that figges and rasines are caried hether in out of Spayne. The same bent or sea rishe have I sene in North-