476 SHORT NOTES. 



T. junceum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 128 (1762). 1633. "In the 

 salt marislies by Dartford in Kent." — Johnson, Ger. em. 24. 



Lepturus filiformis Trin. Fund. Agr. 123 (1820). 1632. 

 " Gramen parvum marinum spica lohacea." — Johns. Kent. p. 11 

 (near Margate). See Ger. em. ch. 22, par. 8. 



Nardus stricta L. Sp. Ph 53 (1753). 1632. "Gramen 

 spartium capillaceo foHo minimum." — Johns. Enum. See Ger. 

 em. ch. 22, par. 10. 



Hordeum sylvaticum Huds. ii. 57 (1778). 1666. " Gr. 

 Secahnum maximum. . . , In the woods a mile west from Peters- 

 field" (Hants).— Merrett, 57. 



H. secalinum Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. 148 (1771), H. pratense 

 Huds. (1778). 1633. "Commonly . . . in our medowes." — Ger. 

 em. ch. 22, par. 4. 



H. murinum L. Sp. PI. 85 (1753). 1548. " The wal Barley 

 whiche groweth on mud walles." — Turn. Names, D v. back. 



H. maritimum With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, 127 (1787). 1688. 

 " Gramen secalinum palustre et maritimum. In palustribus fre- 

 quentissimum est." — Kay Hist. ii. 1258. 



Elymus arenarius L. Sp. PI. 83 (1753). 1597. "About 

 Norfolke and Sufiblke in great plentie." — Ger. 39. 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



Hypoch<eris glabra L. — In the short sandy turf about St. 

 Martha's Hill, near Guildford, there grows a form of Uypochceris 

 (jlahra L. which differs markedly in habit, size, and fruit, from any 

 previously recorded in British Floras. There is, however, in the 

 Herbarium at the British Museum a similar plant from between 

 Thetford and Brandon, in Suffolk. The Surrey plant is small, 

 quite glabrous, root fusiform, branched upwards, bearing several 

 rosettes of small oblanceolate leaves, and a large number of 

 ascending slender simple (or occasionally branched) leafless stems 

 2-3 in. long. Heads small, cylindrical, 3-4-flowered. Corolla and 

 pappus slightly exceeding the involucre. Fruits all truncate, 

 bearing a sessile pappus in two rows, destitute of woolly hairs. 

 The vegetation of the neighbourhood abounds in depauperate forms, 

 and this would appear at first sight to be one, were it not for the 

 fact that the tendency of this species is to become more simple and 

 lose its outer truncate achenes in very poor soil. Jordan even 

 claims to have restored its aborted truncate marginal achenes to 

 H. Balbisii Maur. by cultivation. As this can hardly, therefore, be 

 passed over as a depauperate form, nor yet a mere local variation, 

 occurring as it does in Surrey and Suffolk, and as it has not yet 

 been described, so far as I can discover, in any Continental or 

 British Flora, I venture to call it Hypochceris glabra L. var. nana. 

 In a classification of the other varieties of the species it would 



