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Poa nem oralis L. var. *coarcfafa Gaud. Capel Mount, near 

 Bradoonie ; near Craig Maid, Glen Doll ; in both stations at about 

 2000 ft. Mr. Pugsley suggested this name, which I believe is correct. 

 The chief points mentioned by Gaudin (Fl. Helv. i. 241, 1828) are the 

 stiff rigid erect stems, close spike-like non-nutant panicles, spikelets 

 sub-S-tlowered ; the whole plant slightly glaucous. 



Gli/ceria dedinafa Breb. East end of Balgavies Loch. 



Lycopodiinn annofinum L. Glen Fee. 



L. alpinum L. " Race, L. IssJeri Rouy." In Glen Doll, between 

 Craig Maid and Craig Rennet. This is apparently the correct name 

 for the plant we used to call var. decipiens S^-me. 



Isoetes lacHstris L. Loch Wharral. 



NOTES ON THE ALG^ OF LEICESTERSHIRE. 

 Br Floeence Rich, M.A. 



The last i^'Zora of Leicestershire mcXxidim^ the Cryptogams was 

 issued by the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1886, 

 and in 1913 steps began to be taken to bring out a new and enlarged 

 edition. Owing to the War, publication has been indefinitel}' post- 

 poned, and it has therefore been thought Avell to bring out an 

 interim report on some of the work done on the aquatic Algae. 



For the four years preceding 1886, Mr. F. Bates of Leicester col- 

 lected samples of Algse for the purpose of inclusion in the flora. He 

 made his collection from a restricted area surrounding his own house 

 at Narborough and from the western part of the Cham wood Forest 

 district. He named 234 species and 17 varieties, but doubt attaches 

 to the authenticity of some of his records. His collection of micro- 

 scope slides is now in the possession of the Leicester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society ; when examined in 1913 many of the slides 

 were found to be in an excellent state of preservation (especially those of 

 Desmids and Spirogyras), though many had perished. (The specimens 

 were mounted in an 8-10 per cent, solution of camphor in distilled 

 water, ringed with white zinc cement.) Bates wrote an interesting 

 account Avhich was published in the Flora, and his list (in which, 

 however, the Diatoms were entirely ignored) was subsequently slightly 

 extended by Mr. F. T. Mott (see "Flora of Cropstone Reservoir," by 

 T. A. Preston in Trans. Leicester Lit. Phil.'Soc. 1895, 437). With 

 the help of Mr. A. R. Horwood of the Leicester Museum and other 

 friends, samples have now been obtained from each of the twelve 

 districts into which for floristic purposes the county has been divided. 

 It has thus been possible to extend the known range of some species 

 and to add fresh ones to the list. The flora of an English county is, 

 as a rule, exclusively of local interest, but in preparing it many points 

 of more extended interest come out, sometimes con Arming, sometimes 

 contravening, former generalisations. 



Leicestershire is, on the whole, a flat county, the highest ground 

 occurring in the Charnwood Forest region, where there is a range 

 of hills varving in lieight from 500 to 900 ft. This, our nearest 



