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with dark indigo of purple. In some respects these approach 



E. stricta. — N. Somerset. Rough pasture above Cheddar Gorge, 

 Aug 7th, 1907. Verj characteristic and typical, 11 cm. high. Also 

 gatliered and so named bj Mr. C. E. Salmon, Aug. 17th, 1907. 

 A small form gathered in Cheddar Gorge, July 1914, has probably 

 been taken for E. curta, but it is quite glabrous and has the 

 broadly- toothed bracts of E. horealis, — tlough pasture, Failand, near 

 Bristol, July 190B and 1916. Stem 4-5 cm. high with 2 or 3 short 

 branches at the base, spike 4-sided when fresh. This is perhaps 



F. nemo7'osa var. tetraquetra Breb., Wetts. Mon. p. 126 as var. 

 tetraquetm Arrond. See also Rouy, Fl. de France, xi. p. 153, 

 where it, E. curta, and E. occidentalism are placed together as 

 varieties of E. nemorosa. — Brean Down, June 1899 and 1916. Small 

 branched plants already in fruit at this date. Townsend considered 

 that this was an abnormal form, possibly of E. nemorosa, but the 

 compact growth and broad teeth of the bracts are characteristic of 

 E. borealis. It grew in company with the vernal form of E. occi- 

 dentalism from which it was with difficulty distinguished, except by 

 the absence of glands. — Between Cadbury Camp and Clevedon, Auo-. 

 1916. On the same range of hills as the Failand plant, but taller, 

 more branched, and bracts with narrower teeth. — ^W. Gloucester. 

 St. Vincent's Bocks, Bristol, July 1902. A small form sometimes 

 approaching E. stricta. — Merioxeth. Harlech Golf Links, Aug. 

 1915, W. a Barton. Similar to the last. 



ScoTLA^'D. — Aroyle. On the seacoast, Oban, Aug. 1899. Of 

 this Townsend w^rote, " Confer E. horealis Towns." It a^^pears to 

 me, however, to be quite typical, and is very like the Cheddar plant. 

 A similar plant from Maiden Island, Oban Bay, was named by 

 Tow^nsend E. curta var. glahrescens. The teeth of the upjDer bracts 

 are somewhat narrower, but the leaves are quite glabrous, and it must, 

 I think, be referred to E. horealis. 



Ireland. — Cork. On the coast, Dunboy, Aug. 1908. A slender 

 form with long internodes below, up to 15 cm. high, simple or with 

 1-3 spreading branches. The simyjle specimens have distant, per- 

 sistent lower leaves as in E. gracilis, but the fruiting-spikes are those 

 of E. horealis. — Galway. On a roadside bank, liecess, Aug. 1902. 

 Similar to the last, but the spike more slender and the bracts smaller. 



3. E. occidextalis Wetts. Plant often compact and bushy. 

 Stem short, stout, branched from the base or simple ; branches often 

 nearly as long as the stem, compound in large sjDecimens. Spikes 

 rather stout with imbricated biucts. Leaves 7-8 mm. long. Bracts 

 ^-Q mm. long, the upj^er with ovate, triangular or lanceolate, acute 

 teeth. Corolla small, white, lilac or violet. Glandular hairs short, 

 more or less numerous on leaves, bracts and calyx ; simple hairs, long 

 or short, numerous or nearly absent. Wetts. Mon. t. xi. fig. 13 ; 

 Towns. Mon. t. 375. Both of these figures are taken from poorly- 

 developed specimens. 



ExaLAND. — E. Cornwall. Port Quin, near St. Minver, Sept. 1906. 



— On the dow^ns, Bude, Aug, 1896, ^Sf. T. Dunn ; unnamed. — S. Devon. 



Sandy coast near Bigbury, June 1894, E. S. Marshall; unnamed; 



subsequently refen-ed by Wettstein to E. occidentalis. — N. Somerset. 



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