36 NOTKS ON MTODLESEX PLANTS. 



rostro breviter bifido dentibus obtusis scabris ; stylo brevi trifido ; 

 caryopsi obovata triquetra breviter apiculata. 



Sumatra (Parsoemah Eegion), H. 0. Forbes, No. 2414 iu Herb. 

 Brit. Mus. 



This Carex belongs to the Bengaleusis section, with some 

 affinity to 0. baccans Nees. It lias a close tuft of rough stiff 

 recurved leaves, from which springs a short stout culm, bearing a 

 somewhat compact panicle. The spikelets are about an inch in 

 length and slender ; they are borne on long peduncles, which are 

 for the most part concealed in the swollen vaginre of the culm 

 leaves, from the axils of which the spikelets spring. The laminse 

 of these leaves resemble those of the radical leaves ; the lower 

 ones are three inches in length. The lower spikelets are all female, 

 the males being few in number in the upper part of the panicle. 

 The narrow long-beaked utricles, when ripe, are excurved, almost 

 black, the beak shortly notched, scabrid. The length of the mucro 

 of the glume varies very much. 



NOTES ON MIDDLESEX PLANTS. 

 By John Benbow. 



A BRIEF notice of some plants gathered during the past summer 

 in the north-western districts of the county may be of interest, 

 although the ground covered has been too well worked to yield a 

 very rich harvest. My gleanings, however, show that many species 

 find no place in the ' Flora of Middlesex' for these districts. The 

 search, moreover, has proved the absence of plants in numerous 

 localities where they are stated to grow "abundantly."' Eecords 

 from stations of limited, well-defined areas are in the majority of 

 instances obsolete, and might well be placed within excluding 

 brackets. The following list — supplementary to several previous 

 notes — includes a few only of the species thus omitted, or gathered 

 in new stations : — 



Kanunciiliis circinatiis. In many places from Southall to Hare- 

 field. 



Senebiera didyma. Gravel-jpits, Dawley, near Hayes. 



Reseda lutea. Said to grow "only in Haretield chalk-i)its " ; is 

 common about Springwell ; grows sparingly on a gravelly bank 

 skirting Uxbridge Common, and in a meadow near Jack's Lock. 



Silene nuctijiora. West Drayton. 



SteUaria (jlnuca. Staines Moor (in addition to previous record 

 of "Moor north of Uxbridge"). 



Malva burealis. Near Uxbridge. 



Geranium lucidum. Cowley. 



lUuoiinus catharticHS. Said to grow "near Harefield, but just 

 out of Middlesex"; is to be found in a meadow south of Harefield. 



LotuH tenuiti. In great profusion for a milo or two on railway- 

 banks between Uxbridge and West Drayton. 



