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figure in the Atlas, in every respect, excepting that there is to- 
mentum about the bases of the capitula, which is not the case in 
the French plant. This species appears to differ from F. apiculata, 
G. E. Smith, of which I have only seen cultivated specimens, in 
the presence of the long spathulate involucral leaves, a character 
by which it may at once be known both from X. apiculata and 
F. Germanica. F. Jussiæi and F. apiculata, differ essentially 
from F. Germanica in the form and arrangement of the scales of 
the capitula, which are so placed as to form five sharp angles with 
intermediate furrows, whilst in F. Germanica the scales are arran- 
ged equally all round. 
It is possible that this plant, of which I have preserved but a 
single specimen, may have been introduced with foreign seed : 
it is, however, equally probable, that it only requires looking 
to be found in many other places. 
3. Mercurialis ovata, Stud. et Hoppe; caule simplicissimo 
foliis subsessilibus vel breviter petiolatis ovatis, floribus fœmineis 
longe pedunculatis. Koch. Synops. Fl. Germ. Ed. 9. v. 2. p. 132. 
Reichenbach, Fl. Excursoria, n. 4803. FI. exsice, n. 1783. 
Has. Hedge-rows near Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. I have in- 
troduced this plant chiefly on account of its exact correspondence 
with the specimens given in Reichenbach’s Fl. exsicc. It is pro- 
bably but a state of M. perennis, although its subrotundo-ovate 
leaves give it a different appearance, which does not depend on 
the sex of the plants. | 
4. Carex paludosa, Goodenough. 
Var. B, Kochiana. Carex Kochiana, De Cand. Fruit oblia à or. 
oblong-ovate; glumes ending in a long cuspidate point. à 
Has. Ditches in the level, near Littlehampton, Sussex. — 
5. Lolium Jinicola (Sonder in litt.) ; “valva spiculam dimi- 
diam superante vel vix æquante, spiculis oblongis ovatisve, flori- 
bus breviter aristatis muticisve fructiferis ellipticis, radice fascicu- 
lis foliorum sterilibus destituta." Koch, Synops. FI. Germ. Ed. 
2. v. 2. p. 957. 
“L. arvense, Schrad. Germ. p. 399. D. fl. 1. 715, et plurimo- 
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