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and its bright, translucent green colour. Seeds ovate-oblong, very 

 bairy. — S. rmnosisshna Woods. I only saw this at one spot, near 

 the station for Chenopodium hotnjodes, but no doubt it grows in other 

 parts of the island. — S. pusiUa Woods. This, the chief object of my 

 search, was met with in abundance about a quarter of a mile east 

 of the bridge ; it is a very characteristic little plant, usually 2-3 in. 

 high, but occasionally as much as 6 in, (these taller specimens 

 branched freely), erect, grey-green in colour. It was in full flower 

 at this season. I had only seen it previously in Herb. Woods, 

 kindly lent to me some years ago by Mr. Townsend. — N. Ivjnosa 

 Woods. Mr. Bennett concurs in referring to this a strong woody- 

 rooted plant which is locally plentiful at the south end of the 

 bridge. Unlike the forms of S. radicims Sm. that I have met 

 with here or elsewhere, it produces numerous erect or ascending 

 branches ; their flowering tops are stout, and of a clear pale green. 

 The young seeds were covered with short stiff hairs, almost giving 

 them the appearance of being tuberculate. In Fl. Hants this is 

 reduced to a variety of radicam, with which Mr. Bennett agrees ; 

 having regard to their very different habit when growing, I feel 

 considerable doubt about the matter, which deserves further in- 

 vestigation. — Zostera marina L. var. angmtifolia. Plentiful near 

 Hayling Bridge, together with typical Z. marina and Z. nana ; 

 I examined the fruit while fresh with a strong lens, but it did not 

 then appear to be furrowed. Mr. Bennett writes that Prahl (Krit. 

 PI. Schleswig-Holstein, p. 211) denies the identity of ^. avf/nstifolia 

 Reichb. with var. august ifolia Hornem. (Flora Danica, t. 1501), an 

 earlier name (1816) than that of Fries ; and that Prahl further 

 suggests Reichenbach's anfiustifulia being Z. marina x 7ia7ia. It 

 is quite possible that we have two plants in Britain under the name 

 of dngnstifolia, and the southern form (usually much more luxuriant) 

 may perhaps be a hybrid, though it fruits freely ; but the angusti- 

 folia of Inverness, Ross, and Sutherland is certainly not so, being 

 found where typical marina is absent, though frequently accompanied 

 by nana. I have seen ^^avgustifolia'' in several stations, but I have 

 never been able to find connecting links between it and typical 

 marina. — Spartina Toivnsendi H. & J. Groves. Several strong tufts 

 were observed a little south of the bridge; an extension of its known 

 range eastwards. Comparing these with the S. stricta of the same 

 locality, the divergence was seen to be great ; this good species has 

 been somewhat disrespectfully treated in the Student's Flora, ed. 3, 

 p. 471.— E. S. Marshall. 



SciRpus MARiTiMus. — DuHng last summer and autumn Mr. Fred. 

 Davey and myself (he was the first to find it) noticed a very marked 

 variety of Scirpus maritimus L., which does not appear to have re- 

 ceived any special notice in England, though it certainly seems to 

 merit a distinctive varietal name, which on the continent has been, 

 I find, assigned to it. Var. b. ampactus, in which all the spikes of 

 the inflorescence are gathered together into a compact clump, is, 

 I believe, more or less common wherever the ty[)e occurs at all 

 plentifully, but in the variety I refer to the entire inflorescence is 

 reduced to a single spike. This variety was, so far as I have been 



