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2. var. pygm@eus, Maisson.' “ Caule 1-2 pollicari ; anthela 
depauperata 1-2 cephala.” 
3. var. uliginosus, Fries. 
4. Kochit, Bab. 
5. subverticillatus (Wulf.). 
6. fluttans, Fries. 
What must be a remarkable form is /. confervaceus, St. 
Leger, “Cat. bass. Rhone,” 749 (1882)=f confervaceus, 
Buchenau, in “Fl. N.W. Tiefeb.” 136 (1894). 
Mr. West has a very interesting note on these forms at 
p. 976 (No. 1). It is too long to extract, but two remarks 
may be quoted: “This is one of the most protean species 
imaginable.” ‘These forms are of extreme interest ; in them 
we seem to be able to trace the phylogenesis of an extremely 
abundant and dominant aquatic plant ; from plastic terrestrial 
and subaquatic forms ; not now dominant nor abundant in 
this district.” 
From Rora Moss, Longside, V.C. 93, N. Aberdeen, Dr. 
Trail has sent me a specimen named var. comosus, Bréb. 
“7. uliginosus var. c. comosus. Capit. nombreux formés de 
feuill. sélacées en touffe seriées.” ” 
Specimen from “pools near the Deveron, Banff, L. 
Watt sp.,” is, I suppose, very near pygmeus, but it is 
3 inches high, with setaceous stems and leaves and 2 fl. 
heads. 
It seems now we are to accept “ /. dulbosus, L., ‘Sp. Pl.’ 
Ist ed., 327, 17533; Juncus foliis linearibus caniculatis, 
capsulis obtusis, ‘Fl. Suec., 284,” as the name for 
supinus. 
8. Scirpus fluitans, L.A remarkable form of this species 
was found by the Scottish Alpine Club in Lochan Bhe, near 
Tyndrum (822 feet alt.), 1891. A. H. Evans sp. I have 
seen nothing so slender as this. Ido not know what is the 
result of growing it at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, but I 
think there is no doubt it is a form of S. fuztans, though the 
name has several times been challenged. Notices will be 
found in the “Edin. Bot. Soc. Trans.” for 1891, 1894, 1895, 
and 1903, p. 318. 
1 “Flora Neu-Vorpommern,” p. 456, 1869. 
2 Brébisson, “ Fl. Normandie” (1869), p. 336. 
