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Wooler, Lesbury, Rothbury, Harbottle, Sharperton, Beal, Yevering, Netherton, Morpeth, Blyth, Stanhope at 250 yards, &c.

4. G. maritima Puccinellia maritima, M. and K. Native. Maritime. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Common along the coast in inundated places.

5. G. distans Puccinellia distans, Wahl. Native. English type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Along the coast in sandy ground in various places, as at Alnmouth, Cullercoats, Hartlepool, and the Tees mouth and inland on the Magnesian Limestone at Pensher, Whitburn, Castle Eden, &c.

6. G. procumbens Puccinellia rupestris, Sin. Native. Maritime. English type. Area C, N, D. Range 1.

Not unfrequent in sandy ground, both damp and dry, along the coast. Farne Islands, Cullercoats, South Shields, Whitburn, Fulwell, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Seaton Carew.

7. G. rigida Catapodium rigidum, Sm. Native. British type. Area C, D. Range 1.

Amongst the porphyritic debris in the bed of the Cheviot streams at Wooler, &c. (B.). Rocks and walls at Ratcheugh and Holy Island (T.). From Tyneland we have no note of its occurrence. In Durham frequent on the Magnesian Limestone, as at Marsden, Cleadon, Whitburn, East Boldon, Hylton, and over the Ballast Hills.

8. G. loliacea Catapodium marinum, Wats. Native. Maritime. English type. Area C, D. Range 1.

Sandy ground at Newton-by-the-Sea (T.). Above the north sands, Hartlepool (Rev. J. Dalton. F.), and gathered also by E. Robson at Seaton Carew.

21. POA, L.

1. P. annua Poa annua, L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1-3.

Everywhere common in waste and grassy places, ascending to 800 yards on Cheviot, 750 yards on Highfield.