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On the other hand it approaches C. stellulata, in the next division, if 

 not in the relative length of stems and leaves, and in the smaller size 

 of the fruit, at least in the latter being green and not yellow-brown 

 in colour. The spikelets are also too distant from each other, and 

 the bracts too large for my idea of C. muricata. The Carex I gathered 

 in 1847, in the wood beside Lincluden, seems intermediate between 

 this and C. stellulata, as this is between it and the one from the road- 

 side opposite Lincluden Lodge, which agrees in every point with the 

 description in Hooker, the only constant and perfectly appreciable 

 character common to the three being the smooth margined capsule." 



Peter Gray. 



Queen Street, Dumfries, 

 August, 1848. 



Notes of a Botanical Excursion in Hampshire. 

 By Joseph Woods, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



I started on the 8th of June for a little excursion into Hampshire 

 and Dorsetshire. At Southampton I observed, as I do at Lewes, two 

 forms of Bromus mollis. One with short branches to the panicle, 

 many of them bearing two or three spicules, the whole much con- 

 tracted after flowering; the other with the branches of the panicle 

 much longer, and hardly or not all divided, and the panicle but 

 slightly contracted after flowering. 1 cannot say that we do not 

 sometimes observe intermediate forms, but 1 cannot clearly see in 

 what the second differs from B. racemosus, except in the pubescence. 

 The longer simple peduncles are generally longer than the spicule, 

 as they are in B. commutatus, and not unfrequently in B. racemosus. 



On the 9th I again got upon the railway, retracing my steps as far 

 as Bishopstoke, and thence proceeding to Rumsey, where my princi- 

 pal object was to see the magnificent Norman church, which I had 

 never visited. I walked here along the Salisbury road, and then 

 through the woods of Emly to what was once Rumsey Common, now 

 a grove of fir-trees, returning by the Heathcote monument (which I 

 did not see), near which I found Pyrola minor, the only prize in this 

 day's walk. 



The 10th was wet, and I spent part of the morning in sketching 

 the church, and then took a fly to Lyndhurst. The landlord at the 

 White Horse, at Rumsey, charged me 5s. for the sitting-room. It 

 seems to me that many of our innkeepers have lately endeavoured by 



