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appears to be on the increase, owing to the erecting of pahngs 

 for the above purpose around the station. With C. murale grew 

 C. ojmlifolmm, G. olidwn, G. ruhrum, G. album, vars., etc., and 

 many interesting casuals, such as Glaticium luteiwi, an unexpected 

 ahen inland. — A. K. Horwood. 



Juncus maritimus Lam., var. atlantimis mihi. Salt-marsh, St. 



Mary's, Scilly, September 5th, 1914 In my note on this 



plant (Journ. Bot. January, 1914, p. 19) I proposed for it the 

 varietal name atlanticus, having concluded that the allied form 

 /. rigidus'DesY. (Eouy, Fl. de France), described as ''forte, rigide," 

 could not be identical. That description indeed seems to fit the 

 type maritwms of this country rather than the variation under 

 notice, which has a rather weak slender stem from four to five 

 feet high. Still, as Dr. Moss has suggested, it will be well to 

 compare this plant with specimens of /. rigid us in the Eouy 

 Herbarium at Paris when an opportunity offers ; and until that 

 can be done the name atlanticus should be regarded as pro- 

 visional. Examples in some degree approaching the Scillonian 

 form have been lately forwarded from Poole Harbour, Dorset, 

 by my friend Mrs. E. P. Sand with. The following brief descrip- 

 tion may suffice to define this variety : Culmo subtenue, elato, 

 ad 10 — 15 dcm. producto. Anthela magna (2| — 4 dcm. longa) 

 diffusa, abunde decomposita, bracteam floralem inferiam midto 

 superante. Caetera ut typi. With reference to the comments of 

 Professor Lindman and Mr. Adamson in the Eeport for 1913, 

 p. 499, I would say that no botanist who had seen it growing in 

 masses over a large area could possibly suppose this plant to 

 be a monstrosity ; and would ask how any state of luxuriance 

 could so shorten the lower bract, not merely in relation to its 

 own panicle, but in relation to that of a non-luxuriant type. — 

 J. W. White. 



[This note supplements and greatly amplifies the record in 

 this Journal {I.e.), and w^e regret that it was not also sent to us for 

 publication, in order that the Journal reference might have been 

 complete. — Ed. Jouen. Bot.] 



Scirpus fltdtans L. Near Yarnton, Oxon, June, 1914. Sent 

 in order to put on record a curious instance of plant occurrence. 

 S. fluitaus is one of our rarest species, being only known from two 

 localities, neither of which has recently yielded it. The place 

 where I found it last year was well known to me in the eighties, 

 as it was then a shallow piece of water, rich in Charas. Since 1900 

 the water level of one area has sunk, and Yegetation— Gar ex, 

 Simrganiiim, Iris, etc., have asserted themselves. In the dry 

 period when I visited it there was but little w^ater, but the surface 

 of the wet ground was covered with masses of this Scirpus, which 

 must have been brought, probably by aquatic birds, and finding a 

 congenial home, with little competition, was thus enabled to make 

 in a few years this remarkable increase. — G. C. Druce. 



Garex Oederi Eetz., var. elatior Anderson Gyp. Scand. 25, 1849. 

 Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, July, 1904. L. H. Bailey's unfor- 

 tunate attempt to displace C. Oederi Eetz., and use it for a form 



