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what approaching 4. setacea, but obviously distinct from it. It is 
possible that Fries is not acquainted with true A. setacea. The A. 
montana of Dickson’s Hortus Sice. Brit., from ** the mountains of Scot- 
land," is, however, certainly 4. setacea. 
It appears then, that Hudson's name remains good, and must stand 
as that of the species. The synonymy is as follows :— 
Aira setacea, Huds. Fl. Ang. ed. i. (1760), p. 30. 
A. montana, Huds. Fl. Ang. ed. ii. (1778), p. 85; Dicks. Hort. Sice. 
Brit. fasc. 18 (1802), p. 4 (non L.). 
A. flexuosa, var. B, Sm. Fl. Brit. (1800), i. p. 85, and Eng. Fl. 
(1824), i. p. 104 (excl. reference to Leers, whose figure is clearly 4 
flexuosa). 
A. scabro-setacea, Knapp, Gram. Britt. (1804), t. 32. 
A. uliginosa, Weihe in Bonninghausen, Prod. Fl. Monast. (1824), 
. 25. 
Deschampsia Thuillieri, Godr. and Gren., Flore de France (1855—56), 
iii. p. 508 (includes also Aira discolor, Thuillier, which Boreau (Fl. du 
Centre, 700) considers distinct from uliginosa). 
The plant has occurred in this country in the following localities :— 
Stratton Heath, Norfolk, Mr. Stillingfleet (Hudson and Herb. Smith !) ; 
Cawston decoy, Norfolk, Mr. Briant (Herb. Mus. Brit!) ; Fleet Pond, 
North Hants (H. C. Watson; Angusshire, Mr. J. Mackay (Herb. 
Smith !); Forfar Heath, G. Don (Knapp); near Forfar, G. Don (Herb. 
Kew. et Winch, fide Baker) ; Loch of Drum, Aberdeenshire A" 
Mus. Brit.!); Cregduff Lough, Roundstone, Connemara, A. G. ? 
(Herb. Mus. Brit. !). 
SOME ACCOUNT OF CHESHIRE RUBI. 
By tHe Hon. J. B. Leicester Warren, M.A., F.L.S. 
This attempt to put on record the various Rudi-forms which I have 
up to the present time personally observed in Cheshire is merely 
similar to what Mr. Briggs has done for the Brambles of Devon. 
I am convinced that, when the distribution of our native subspe- 
cies of Rubi has been properly investigated, much subsidiary light 
will be thereby thrown upon the study and discrimination of these 
difficult plants. Trying some years ago to make a list of Cheshire 
