268 Mr. C. C. Babington on British Plants. 



ascertain their former existence. The primary and secondary 

 branches of the panicle are usually to a far gi-eater extent fur- 

 nished with leaves, which are also larger, than is the case in 

 T. minus, and small ones, consisting of from one to three small 

 leaflets, are frequently found subtending even the ultimate 

 branchlets. This tendency of the panicle to become leafy distin- 

 guishes the present plant from both T. minus and T. saxatile, in 

 . which it always looks naked. The panicle is rather large, usually 

 very much subdivided, and in the larger forms has very long 

 pedicels. 



My specimens named T. majus from North Queensferry in 

 Scotland (Hook. Fl. Scot. i. 172), and Ulleswater (Sm. Eng. Fl. 

 iii. 42, and Eng. Bot. t. 611), are, I am confident, the T. capillare, 

 although I only possess a portion of the upper part of these 

 large plants. I quite agree with Fries in thinking that they are 

 a luxuriant state of T. flexiiosum. 



There is much reason to suppose that what is called T. minus 



in the iutei'ior of England chiefly consists of this plant, but I 



can only state the certain presence of its smaller form in Cam- 



^ bridgeshire and at Cheddar in Somersetshire, and its larger foi-m 



^ ^ ^"^'V in Fifeshire and Cumberland. I am informed that Mr. D. Oliver, 



^^-^y jun., has observed it upon Ben B ulbeiTin the county of Sligo ; 



.J^^/^ and Mr. Shuttleworth found it at Curragh More, LoughCorrib, 



" J Y^, Co. (jalway ; llr. Brand at Grey Mare's Tail, Dumfriesshire ; and 



Y^ Dr. Greville (I believe) at Far Out Head, Sutherlandshire. 



3. T. saxatile (DC.) ; stem rather zigzag smooth but striated below 

 the striated sheaths branched hollow leafy to the base, " stipules 

 with horizontal auricles" (Fries), leaves 2-3-pinnate, leaflets 3-5- 

 cleft paler beneath, petioles subterete with patent not divaricate 

 branches, panicle leafless erect pyramidal with patent straight 

 branches, flowers drooping (?), carpels regularly oval. 



T. saxatile, DeCand. Fl. Fr. v. 633 ; Reich. Ic. Fl. Genu. iii. 15. 

 t. 34 ; Gren. et Godr. Fl. Fr. i. 7 (excl. syn.). 



T. Kochii, Fries, Mant. iii. 46, et Summa, 136. 



T. coUinum, " Wallr." teste Fries, Herb. Norm. vii. 25 ; Koch, Syn. 

 ed. 1. 4. 



A large plant with stems often 4 feet in height. Leaves very 

 large, with long intervals between the leaflets. Leaflets large, 

 broad, closely resembling those of T. flexuosum. None of the 

 sheaths are leafless, they are furrowed, and the furrows descend 

 a short distance upon the stem, which is elsewhere without fur- 

 rows. The secondary branches are so generally unfurnished with 

 leaves that the panicle may be called leafless, although there are 

 leaves at the origin of the principal branches. It is not quite 

 certain if the flowers ai'e erect or drooping ; in a plant gathered 



