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the Perthshire Cifperacea,, I have determined the species. From its 

 European distribution — from Scandinavia southwards to S.E. 

 France, and eastwards to Thrace and Middle Eussia — S.ferruf/ineus 

 was a species not unlikely to occur in Britain. Though bearing a 

 certain resemblance to S. nic/ricans, it is abundantly distinct from 

 that species. As my specimens are not in fruit, I reserve a full 

 description till I have an opportunity of visiting the locality where 

 Mr. Brebner found the plant. In the meantime, however, I may 

 indicate some of the points of difference between it and S. nu/Hcans. 

 In the first place S.ferrugineus is more slender in all its parts than 

 S. nu/ricaiis, and as the spike has generally only two spikelets, and 

 often only one, it is narrow and oblong rather than obovoid. In 

 the second place the lower bract is only about as long as, or a little 

 shorter than, the sjiike, and its subulate point is erect instead of 

 oblique. In the third place the dorsal keel of the glumes is either 

 quite smooth or, more rarely, very slightly rough. The Loch 

 Tummel specimens, which much resemble German and Swiss speci- 

 mens in my herbarium, are from seven to eleven inches long, and 

 have very short leaves. — F. Buchanan White. 



Ferns new to N. S. Wales. — In a collection of ferns made 

 recently near Illawarra, S. Australia, which Mr. Baker has kindly 

 named for me, are three species — Xephrodium hispklum Hook., 

 Hymenophyllum imdtifidum Sw., and H. varium Br., not hitherto 

 recorded for the colony. — Joseph Eedfobd. 



New Anglesey Station for Chamagrostis minima. — I have just 

 received specimens of this grass, collected this month, from a 

 station in Anglesey not previously reported, namely, at Khos-neigir, 

 m the neighbourhood of Cymmeran Bay. The only other Anglesey 

 station for this plant is on the western side of Llyn Coron, a small 

 lake about half a mile long, close to the Bodorgon station, on the 

 Chester and Holyhead Eailway. The new locality for this rare 

 British grass is about five miles in a north-westerly direction fi-om 

 Llyn Coron, and for its discovery we are indebted to Mrs. John 

 Plant, the wife of the Curator of the Peel Park Museum, Salford. — 

 Charles Bailey. 



Bedfordshire Plants. — In the excellent list of Bedfordshire 

 plants given by Mr. James Saunders in this Journal for 1883, 

 Papaver hi/bridiwi. L. finds no place. It has grown in the chalky 

 corn and clover fields, close to the base of the hills, by the downs 

 to the west of Dunstable, and has grown there for many years. 

 Abbot speaks of the plant as common in Bedfordshire. Papaver 

 Ar(jemone L. grows with it, and is the more abundant of the two. 

 CepJiahmthera grandifiora Bab., stated to be rare by Abbot and 

 Mr. Saunders, grows in the northern section of the long plantation 

 of beeches, firs, and larches bordering the Eoman Eoad on the west 

 of Dunstable. This locality is not given by either of the authors 

 mentioned. — W. Gr. Smith. 



Crepis taraxacifolia in Middlesex. — Early in June I gathered 

 Crepis taraxacifolia in several places between Hampton Court and 



