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As I did not discover it till A. inicrocarjms was quite past 

 flowering, I was unable to compare the claws of the filaments in 

 the fi'esh state, but from my notes they are broader in proportion 

 to their length than those of A. microcaiyus. 



Abundantly from the Alcadeza Crags to Boca de Leon, in the 

 Cork Woods, and succeeds A. viicrocarpus in that neighbourhood 

 (Nos. 1818, 1961). 



Eynchospora glauca Vahl var. pauciseta Turrill, var. nov. 

 A planta typica foliis angustioribus, spiculis majoribus, setis 

 paucioribus minoribus recedit ; a var. chinense C. B. CI. setis 

 paucioribus minoribus distinguitur. 



Neither typical B. glauca Vahl nor any variety of it has been 

 recorded before from Europe. The present plant is therefore 

 extremely interesting, both as extending the known distribution 

 of the species and also as forming the type of a new variety. The 

 original B. glauca was described by Vahl from specimens collected 

 in Jamaica, and the present plant differs from it in having long, 

 narrowly linear leaves (a somewhat variable character in this 

 species), spikelets up to 6 mm. long, and either no bristles, or from 

 one to three (most often two) much reduced ones, which are 

 always shorter than the nut (excluding the beak), and sometimes 

 only represented by small protuberances less than 1 mm. long at 

 the base of the nut. The Gibraltar plant comes much nearer the 

 variety chinensis C. B. CI., and the only constant distinguishing 

 features are found in the reduced bristles of the former. If the 

 variety chinensis is kept as a species, as Boeckcler, its first 

 describer intended, the variety pauciseta should be considered a 

 variety of it rather than as a variety of B. glauca. 



At the Waterfall, Garganta del Aquila, S. de Palma, Algeciras, 

 Wolley-Docl, Nos. 1348, 2088. 



Atropis iberica, sp. nov. Caespitosa, culmis 6 dec, intensius 

 glaucis, foliis juventate conduplicatis, tandem subplanis, 2-5-3 mm. 

 latis explanatis, nervis utraque facie 3-4 subprominentibus, ligula 

 ad 5 mm. longa, ovali-lanceolata, ex basi decurrente acute acumi- 

 nata, paniculis 16-24 cm. longis, laxis, paulo nutantibus, deorsum 

 visu SEepius subunilateraliter triangularibus, rarius symmetricali- 

 bus, ramis ex quoque nodo 2-3, ineequalibus, patentibus, longi- 

 oribus basi breviter nudis, pedicellis plerumque 1-2 mm. longis, 

 spiculis variegatis, 8-10 mm. longis, flosculis 5-6 (rarius ad 8)5 mm. 

 longis, glumis conspicue inaequalibus, explanatis ovato-lanceolatis, 

 acutis, inferiore uninervia, superiore trinervia quam inferiore duplo 

 longiore, ad mediam usque flosculi proximi attingente, paleis 

 suboequalibus, inferiore acuta, vel breviter acuminata, edenticu- 

 lata, subvalidius quinquenervia, nervis exterioribus subprominen- 

 tibus, basim versus saepe pubescente, superiore dense ciliata, 

 antheris 3 mm. longis. 



Ab A. Foucaudii Hack, differt ligula elongata acuta, gluma 

 inferiore 1-, superiore 3-nervia (baud 3- et 5-nerviis), magis acutis, 

 paleis acutis vel acute acuminatis, apice anguste membranaceo- 

 marginatis integris, antheris duplo majoribus. 



