REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB. 237 
clothes-brushes are the panicles of Sorghum vulgare, Pers., the general 
h is “whisk,” thre known 
amongst brushmakers, namely, Florence, Venetian and French whisk. 
posed of several smaller bundles and with a number of short pieces of 
Reports, 
REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB 
FOR THE YEAR 1872. 
By J. BoswELL Syme, LL.D., F.L.S. 
« Pond in Balmuto Garden, Fife.” —J. 
BoswELL Syme. This is the first time I have noticed this form in Scot- 
S eep. This p 
Mr. Hiern’s paper in ‘ Journal of Botany, 
rather thick and hairy beneath, and the carpels hispid 
en similar are sent by t 
ey 
R. tripartitus, De Candolle (?). “ During the past dozen years very few 
specimens of this plant have been obtained im the recorded localities 
t Esher, Surrey. In the early summer © 
plentifully in a spot to which collectors can readily be d 
rifle practice ground near Esher. 
r. Hiern separates it from the tripartitus of De Candolle, chiefly by the 
absence of submerged leaves, naming it intermedius, Knaf in ‘ Flora.’ 7 
H. Borre seeds of the British J£. tripartitus, 
raised a plant with capillary submerged leaves, of which I possess speci- 
_W. W. Newbould, who received 
. them from Mr. Borrer himself, with this information concerning their 
parentage. 
