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2l^ borealia is an eglaiulular form of E. brecipihi. The answer to 

 this is, in my opinion, in the negative, E. horealis being short with 

 long dense spikes, and bracts with short, broad teeth ; while E. hrevi- 

 inla is tall and lax, with less dense spikes shorter in proportion to the 

 .stem, and bracts wdth longer, narrower teeth. Thus understood, there 

 jshould be little difficulty in determining with wdiich species a plant 

 should be j^laced, irrespective of the presence or absence of glandular 

 hairs. 



Irelaxd. — E. Galway, Woodford, Aug. 1907. Fairly typical 

 but bracts rather small and flower small, blue. In company with 

 this grcAV E. gracilis var. primaria and a series of forms which 

 1 can only refer to hybrids between the two species. ISome of these 

 are tall with numerous slender branches, with smaller bracts than 

 E. hrevipila and rather small blue flowers ; others tall and slender, 

 simple or with 1 or 2 short branches and larger, conspicuous blue 

 flowers. All these bear numerous short glandular hairs. The 

 branched specimens are scarcely distinguishable from E. campestris 

 var. ner/Jecta except by the colour of the flowers ; and the simple 

 plants are very similar to E. gracilis, Townisend records a hybrid 

 l^etween the.se species under the name of E. dijforinis Towns. (Mon. 

 p, 33), but his description does not accord with the Woodford plants. 

 1 leave them provisionally as E. hrevipila x gracilis, — Loughrea, 

 Aug. 1907. Corolla pale, larger and more conspicuous than in 

 the Woodford plants, 10 mm. long with the lip 7 mm. broad. — 

 W. Galway. Near the lake and on Urrisbeg, Koundstone, Aug. 

 1907. A^ariable in height, often simple and slender, with few or 

 many glandular hairs. A short branched form with dense spikes 

 may perhaps be E. horealis x hrevipila. — Clifden, Aug. 1907. Well- 

 develo}3ed typical plants, with larger bracts than in most of my 

 Irish gatherings. 



9. E. SUECICA Murb. & Wetts. Stem rather stout, 12-20 cm. 

 high, pale brown, thinl}" pubescent, simple or with 1-4 branches 

 above the middle, and occasionally with 1-2 rudimentary ones below 

 it ; internodes very long. Leaves up to 11 mm. long, opposite, in 

 3-6 pairs, ovate cuneate, with 0-3 ovate, obtuse or the upper with 

 acute teeth on each side. Bracts 10 mm. long, broader than the 

 leaves, with 3-5 ovate, subobtuse or lanceolate-acuminate, flexuous, 

 subaristate teeth on each side. Spike short with fairly long inter- 

 nodes below, stout at the top. Corolla conspicuous, 9-10 mm. long, 

 ])ale lilac and white. Calyx shorter than its bract, teeth aristate. 

 C-apsule shorter than the calyx-teeth. Leaves, bracts and calyx 

 minutely and thinly setulose. 



This is the description of plants distributed by H. Moller as 

 E. tenuis (Brenner) Wetts. v. eglandulosa Murb. ad int., gathered 

 at Skane, Kungsmarken, Sweden, July, 1895. The name was sub- 

 sequently altered to E. suecica Murb. Si Wetts., and Wettstein 

 refers to this locality on p. 298 of his Monograph. On p. 297 

 he states that it is an early-flowering parallel-form of E. stricta 

 and is " distinguished from this by the stem being unbranched or 

 branched in the upper part, by the elongated internodes, the less 

 acute teeth of the leaves and the earlier flowering (May to July) 



