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like paUiIus, but the pales are equal and the anthers lono:. Introduced 

 with wool and also with grass seeds." — A. Beotherston, Some of 

 "Mr. Brotherston's specimens bear a great resemblance to B. patulus, 

 but they have the long anthers and subeqiial outer and inner pales of 

 B. arveiisis. The spikelets are wholly green as in patulus ; in the 

 dried plant it is impossible to see the striking difference in the 

 structure of the two. B. patulus has the panicle drooping, and 

 the spikelets all hanging over to one side ; while in B. aruensis it is 

 scarcely one-sided, ana when it is in flower the longer and stiffer 

 peduncles spread widely, and the upper inner ones are erect. — 



J. T BOSWELL. 



Bromus {patulus, Mert. and Koch?). "Some specimens from an 

 immense root of what seems to be this, found near Marsh Mill (flour 

 mill), Plympton St. Mary. In a waste shady spot, July, 1874." — 

 T. R. Aecher Briggs. *' This seems to me the same plant as that 

 sent by Mr. Brotherston— e'.i?., B. arvensis, simulating B. patulus. 

 It has long anthers and subequal pales." — J. T. Boswell, June, 

 1875. 



Brachy podium sylvaticum, var. " An example of a variety of this 

 plant growing on dry banks by the Plymouth and Saltash road. The 

 spikelets are slender and nearly erect. Any Plymouth record for 

 B. pinnatum probably belongs to this variety of B. sylvaticum!'' — T. 

 R. Archer Briggs 



Lepturus filiformis. '' Salt marsh, Inverkeithing, Pife. As I see 

 in ' English Botany' Lepturus filiformis is given as * having been re- 

 ported from Inverkeithing,' perhaps you may care to have the accom- 

 panying specimens from the salt marsli there. I first gathered it there 

 in 1871, and this year found it there in great profusion, along the 

 very edge of the road." — T. Drummond, 1874. 



23otamcal liJcto^* 



THE WELWITSCH C0LLECTI0:N'S. 



After a litigation extending over nearly three years, the Chancery 

 suit of the King ot Portugal against the executors ot Dr. Welwitsch was 

 brought to a conclusion on November 17th by the arrangement of a 

 compromise. Our readers do not require to be reminded that the point 

 in dispute was the ownership of the collections of plants and other 

 natural objects made in Angola by the late Dr. Welwitsch during his 

 exploration of that part of Africa in the years 1853-60 on behalf and 

 at the expense of the Portuguese Government. In the memoir of Dr. 

 Welwitsch at the beginning of our volume for 1873, pretty full details 

 of his explorations were given, as well as some account of the col- 

 lections, and the mode in which by his will Dr. Welwitsch disposed 

 of them. After his death the executors at once commenced to carry 



