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however, it differed at a glance, when fresh, being glaucous (which 

 seems never to be the case with that species). Mr. C. B. Clarke 

 then kindly looked at specimens, and agreed that they could not 

 come under vaginata ; adding, "For me, your plant will be a 

 ♦ subalpine' or ' cold' form of C. panicea. In this herbarium I find 

 one plant exceedingly like yours (from the Pyrenees), issued as the 

 type-specimen of * C. intermedia Miegeville.' I also find plants near 

 yours marked C. sparsjflora Walil. I do not know that these plants 

 are rightly named 0. sparsi flora : but all these forms are, in Kew, 

 included in the C. panicea bundle." C. sparsi flora is described as 

 green, not glaucous, and is generally taken to be a synonym of 

 vaginata. Nyman places C. intermedia Miegev. under vidgaris, 

 which is obviously an error. A root that I sent home has, this 

 season, produced two flowering stems ; they have been sent in the 

 fresh state to Mr. Bennett, who writes : — " I have now no doubt it is 

 the C. intermedia of Miegeville." I found it in good quantity, over 

 a limited area, associated with C. panicea, from which it looks 

 specifically different, being of a more /u-iVZ-glaucous tint, and a 

 perfectly distinct habit, fully maintained, so far, in cultivation. I 

 have not yet had access to the author's description. In height my 

 specimens vary from 4 to 8 in. The male spikelet is rufous, on 

 peduncles ^-^ in. long ; female 1 or (more rarely) 2, the lower 

 peduncled. Fruit (scarcely matured) globose, half the size of that 

 of panicea ; glumes not so dark. The following remark of Prof. 

 Babington is very suggestive : — "It is not unlike ih.e plmost achy a 

 (Sm.), as figured in Eug. Bot. Suppl. 2731, which we now put to 

 vaginata.'" Is it not exceedingly probable that Smith really knew 

 the present plant, and rightly distinguished it from his C. Mielicho- 

 feri = vaginata Tausch. ? — C. flava L. Two specimens collected 

 beside the White Water in Glen Doll have very tumid fruit, and 

 appear to be the same as a form which Mr. Druce has suggested 

 might be a hybrid with 2^idla. — *(7. vesica ria L. Glen Nevis (97). 

 — C. pidla Good. Very luxuriant in the bog on the E. side of Ben 

 More (88) ; sometimes having four female spikelets. One or two 

 specimens show a decided tendency towards vesicaria. 



Deschampsia caspitosa Beauv., b. hrevifulia Parn. From Prof. E. 

 Hackel I learn that this is, as I suspected, a synonym of var. alpina 

 Gaud., which, however, he extends to forms that would hardly be 

 included under hrevifolia by British botanists. — D. flexuosa Trim., 

 b. montana (Huds.). Clach Leathad {Q8) ; Unich Water, above 

 Glen Lee (90). 



Festuca ovina L., b. capillata Hack. Turfy wall-tops, Glen Nevis. 



Eqidsetwn pratense Ehrh. A decumbeut, small state, analogous 

 to the var. alpinum of E. arvcnse, is abundant on moist screes in 

 Glen Fiagh. 



Lycopodium alpinum L., var. decipiens Syme. Stob Ban, Glen 

 Nevis (97) ; Clach Leathad (98). This form is identical with a 

 specimen once sent to me by Mr. Druce as coniplanatum, but looks 

 distinct from a plant met with by Mr. Hanbury and myself in Glen 

 Derry, S. Aberdeen, which may be the right thing. 



