60 THiRSK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. [February, 



(or seen) in hundreds on the sandhills of the Somersetshire coast 

 this year. I think that Mr. Clark, of Halesleighj was the dis- 

 coverer, and he thinks the species imported with Lucerne seeds.' 

 It is a plant of southern Europe, extending northward to France 

 (reaching to the western departments), Belgium, and the Rhine- 

 land. 



" Chenopodium Botrys. Mr. W. Mudd forwards an example 

 of this species from waste ground at Great Ayton, North York- 

 shire. It was before met with as a garden weed at Camphill, 

 North Yorkshire, by Mr. Hebblethwaite, who sends a supply, for 

 distribution, of garden-grown specimens. 



" Festuca Pseudo-myurus, var. maj'itima. From the coast sand- 

 hills of the Isle of Wight, Mr. More sends a series of specimens 

 of a plant thus marked, and writes respecting it, — ' This is what 

 is called uniglumis, /3, in ' Flora Vectensis •' but it clearly differs 

 from that species in having no awn to its larger glume, and hav- 

 ing the two glumes always present, and in the single stamen. 

 But at the same time it differs a good deal from the ordinary 

 Pseudo-myurus in its shorter, stouter habit, the usually purplish 

 tinge of its panicle, and in the disproportion between the glumes, 

 the smaller one being much shorter, sometimes nearly obsolete. 

 In the proportion which the large glume bears to the included 

 floret, our plant seems intermediate between uniglumis and Pseu- 

 do-myurus. The larger glume reaches somewhat less than one- 

 third of the contiguous floret, and, except in the terminal spike- 

 let, is four or five times as long as the smaller glume. There is, 

 I believe (in the packet), about an equal number of specimens 

 of the usual state of Pseudo-myurus, which I hope you will ap- 

 prove of sending out in each case for comparison with the va- 

 riety.' Lloyd writes of the plant, — ' It varies with the inferior 

 glume very short, and on the borders of the sea with the superior 

 glume obtuse [F. ambigua, Le Gall.).' I observe that in his 

 last edition Mr. Babington give it as F. Myurus, Linn. 



" Briza maxima. The Rev. A. M. Norman sends several speci- 

 mens of this species, collected by himself, and marked, • Natural- 

 ized at St. Aubin's, Jersey, July, 1859.' 



" Commo7i Barley with a branched spike. Mr. Watson sends, 

 from a field in Surrey, a form of the common Barley with a 

 branched spike. It grew amongst a crop of the ordinary simple 

 spiked state." 



