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f/inosa L. Between Belford and Berwick. — E. (jlnuca Vill. (type), 

 and var. i. Bakeri (Desegl.). Alnmouth. In this note I have put 

 an asterisk where the plant does not appear to have been previously 

 recorded for the vice-county. My father is responsible for the names. 



— F. A. KOGERS. 



Extinction of Deyeuxia stricta Kunth, var. boreaxis (Laestad.). 

 — The severe gale of a few years ago, which caused such extensive 

 and deplorable damage to the pine and larch forests of Scotland, is 

 indirectly the cause to which may be attributed the disappearance 

 of the above grass. It was first discovered by me in the August of 

 1888 in a small swamp immediately to the north-east of the laudiug- 

 stage at Killin Pier, in Perthshire, as I was rushing through the 

 rain to catch the train which was waiting at Killin Pier Station. 

 Mr. F. T. Eichards, my companion, kindly delayed the train for a 

 few moments till I collected about a score of specimens of this rare 

 northern grass. I at once sent a specimen to Mr. Arthur Bennett, 

 enquiring if it was Deyexixia stricta. He replied, " Yes, or horecdu."' 

 Subsequently Prof. Hackel referred it to borealis, and under the 

 name which heads this notice I distributed it through the Exchauge 

 Club in 1888. In 1891 I again visited the locality (which, on 

 account of its proximity to such a public way, I had refrained from 

 publishing), but found a saw-mill had been established in the im- 

 mediate vicinity. This year, to my dismay, I found the swamp 

 completely filled up with sawdust, and not a vestige of this alpine 

 grass to be seen. Nor was a protracted search along the southern 

 end of Loch Tay successful. I may add that the grass when 

 growing bears a somewhat close resemblance to Rolens lanatus, and 

 this resemblance was probably the cause of the grass escaping the 

 attention of the numerous botanists who must have passed the 

 swamp where both grasses grew together. A closer observation 

 will, however, show that the growth of the Beyeiixia is more rigid 

 and the panicle narrower, and of a darker tint. It will be remem- 

 bered tliat the dredging of the Forfarshire locality for marl is said 

 to have caused the extinction of Deyeuxia stricta and Eriophorum 

 alpinum. — G. Claridge Druce. 



A NEW British hybrid Sedge from Surrey. — Pfarrer G. Kiikeii- 

 thal, of Grub a/F, near Coburg, has written to say that he recently 

 saw a " Carex vnlpina" collected by me at Witley (May 6th, 1889) 

 in Prof. Hausskuecht's herbarium, which he pronounces to be 

 C. vulpina x panicubtta. I have kept a specimen, and see good 

 reasons for accepting this determination. The plant grew among a 

 great quantity of C panicnlata, together with a root or two of 

 C. vuljdna, which is quite rare in this part of the county, accordhig 

 to my experience. When mounting it, I actually began to write 

 ^' Ctirex ixiniciihita" on the sheet, though (believing at that time 

 that hybrid sedges were very uncommon, with two or three notable 

 exceptions, such as ('. oxillaris Good., C. Boominyhausiana Weihe, 

 and C'. xanthocarpa Dcgl.) I thought it to be only a remarkably 

 strong form of C. vulpina. I believe that I have also gathered 

 C. paniculatu x vulpina near the river Eden, below Chiddington, 

 W. Kent, where both parents were plentiful (May 2nd, 1894). It 



