Glyceria fluitans (L.)R.Br. (Poa fluitans (L.)Scop.; Festuca fluitans L.)
First record: Ray, 1660
Gramen aquaticum cum longissima panicula Float-grass. Everywhere in streams and watery places. Ray,1660,65(69).
Gramen aquaticum cum longissima panicula Flote-grass. Ray,1670:138.
Eragrostis aquatica elatior locustis quasi in spicas digestis Martyn,1727,108.
Festuca fluitans Flote Fescue-grass. Manna-grass. Relhan,1785.
Ponds and ditches. Common throughout the county. Bab.1860,278.
There are also 78 records in Recorder, [R].
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Wood near Downing Arms, JSL Gilmour, 1932.
Guilden Morden; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Tadlow; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Cuxton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Eltisley. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Gamlingay. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Heath Wood, Gamlingay, local, WTKB & JW, 1916.
Nr Haley wood; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Hatley St George, PD Sell, det. SM Walters, 1950.
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Graveley; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Papworth St Agnes; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Pond near Papworth Wood, 295.632, DR Donald, 1979.
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Pond, Nene Common Washes, 268.980, G Crompton & R Payne, 22.7.1988, det. PJO Trist.
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Barrington; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Croydon. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Bourn; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Roadside pond, Caldecote, SM Walters, 31.7.1945, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE; 2 ponds near Caldecote, SM Walters, 1945.
Caxton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Comberton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Gt Eversden. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Harlton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Ditch, Longstowe, R Scott, 31.7.1940, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE.
Pond near Old North Road station, SM Walters, 30.5.1949,.
35Y, R Nedderman, 1975+.
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Birds Pastures; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Childerley; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Dry Drayton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Fen Drayton. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Elsworth; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Pit SW of Madingley Park. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Swavesey. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Ditch, Sutton Meadlands, SM Walters, 1945.
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Chatteris. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890; AF.cat.
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Doddington. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890; AF.cat.
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Cambridge. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890; 3.6.1878, Bent.ann.
Coe Fen, AC Leslie, 8.1978; Coe Fen, 448.576, CD Preston det. CA Stace, 15.7.1999.
Poa fluitans, Brook Cherry Hinton last week May 1824 [in pencil] n.c.,SWN.
Hinton. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Wet meadow to west of Hoffers Brook, Harston, G Crompton, 4.6.1964, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE.
Haslingfield. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Madingley; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Moorbarns Thicket. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Roadside pond, near Little Shelford, SM Walters, 1.8.1945, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE.
Pond at right of road from Whittlesford to Little Shelford, c. 1m N of Whittlesford, SM Walters, 1945.
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Histon Road. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890; Histon. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Horningsea. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Impington. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Long Stanton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Oakington. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890; Pond, Oakington, R Scott, 9.8.1940, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE.
Westwick; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Aldreth. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
In swamp with Athyrium & D. filix-mas, Wilburton Manor, G Crompton, 7.9.1963, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE.
Willingham, village pond, AC Trueblood & APD Jones, 1940.
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Mepal, AF.cat.
Washes, AF.Flora.
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Fire Lots, AF.cat.
Pond near Stonea, JSL Gilmour, 1930.
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Hildersham. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
River Granta near Mill, Linton, 564.466, FE Wrighton, 1978.
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Teversham Fen, with G. plicata, SM Walters, 5.1947.
Wilbraham Fen. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Quy Fen, SM Walters, 1946.
Swaffham Bulbeck, L.J., 5.7.1823, BATHG; Swaffham, J Downes, 15.9.1829, Hb. Babington, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE; Swaffham. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Burwell Lode at Upware, H Godwin, 28.7.1944, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE.
Stretham, Isle of Ely, Hb. CM Lemann, 5.1833, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE.
Stuntney; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Wicken fen. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890; Evans,1923; Wicken Lode, SM Walters, 1945; Main Drove, Wicken Fen, SM Walters, 12.6.1951, with G. plicata, det. PJO Trist 1982, CGE.
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Ely. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Marsh, The Loop, Roswell Pits, 558.809, JO Mountford & GMB Smith, 25.7.1970.
58K, GMS Easy, 1972.
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Shudy Camps. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Brinkley. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
Stetchworth. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Chippenham. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Poa fluitans Very common in Ditches about Wisbech. Hort.Sicc.1:WBCH; Glyceria fluitans conf. CD Preston 1993; Festuca fluitans Ditches about Wisbeach. Skrim.MS; Wisbech. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890.
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Newton. Bab.MS.Fl.3:890; Pond at Newton, JSL Gilmour, 1930.
