192 Extracts from the Minute- Booh of the Linnean Society. 



specimens, gathered near Cobban) and Ramsgate, in the same county, 

 and near Moulsey in Surrey, agree with Mr. Winch's plant in their 

 -talked pappus and branched stem, and probably therefore belong 

 to Barkhuusia taraxacifolia . The only British specimens in the So- 

 ciety's possession that Mr. Kippist believes to be referable with cer- 

 tainty to Crepis biennis are two in the Hortus Siccus of Mr. Wood- 

 ward, with ripe achenia and perfectly sessile pappus ; the habitats of 

 the plants are not given, but in all probability they were gathered 

 either in Suffolk or Norfolk. 



April 6. Read an Extract of a Letter from J. Burnham, Esq., to Hyde 

 Clarke, Esq., F.L.S., on a supposed new British Juncus. Communi- 

 cated by Mr. Clarke. 



Mr. Burnham states this Juncus, which he proposes to call June. 

 lucetis, to be not very uncommon about villages and country-towns 

 in Shropshire and Herefordshire, and to be met with also in other 

 places both in England and on the continent, viz. in France and 

 Bavaria. He thinks it may have been confounded, if observed be- 

 fore the flowering season, with June, effitsus, from which however 

 its thick and light-coloured culms at all times distinguish it. The 

 following is Mr. Burnham's description of the plant: 



"Planta pedalis et ultra; radicibus parvis conicis, fibris inconspicuis ; culmis 

 plurimis aequalibus, omnibus florentibus, nee unquam sterilibus, subcylin- 

 drieis (medulla subtetragona albido-viridi, strato exteriore flavescenti annulis 

 concentricis conspicuis), glaberrimis, tegumento unctuoso (huic specie! pro- 

 prio) indutis, junioribus spatha communi papyracea circumvallatis, adultis 

 spatha lacera effusis subsolitariis ; capitulis terminalibus compactis; peri- 

 anthiis oblongo-lanceolatis, flammeis, erectis, evanescentibus ; pedicellis ni- 

 greseentibus. Ca>terum Junco effuso simillima." 



Mr. Burnham suspects that this plant is alluded to in Ray's 

 'Synopsis Stirpium Britannicarum/ and it seems probable that it 

 may be the same with Juncus effusus, £. of Smith's 'English Flora,' 

 vol. ii. p. 168. 



