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scabrous or puberulent at least towards the apex, while they are often 
subglabrous at the base, not pubescent all over as in the typical F. 
arenaria. . 
Bromus commutatus, Schrad. var. racemosus. ** Courtfields, Monmouth- 
shire.’—Aveustin Ley. These specimens belong to the B. racemosus 
of Fries and the continental botanists. 
S romus arvensis, L. “ Primrose Hill, Middlesex."—W. T. TursELTON 
YER. 
Triticum acutum, D.C. “Burntisland and Kirkcaldy, Fife."—J. BoswELL 
Syme. “ St. Andrew’s, Fife."—Col. Drummonp Hay. This plant appears 
to be abundant on the Fife shore of the Frith of Forth. Many of the 
imens have the spikelets smaller than usual, and the spike occupying a 
less portion than one fourth of the whole stem, which was the least propor- 
cem that I had seen when writing the description of the plant for * English 
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tany. 
Lolium Linicola, Sond. * Newton Ards, County Down.” —E. F. Linton, 
Hordeum pratense, Huds. “Sent from its being a rare grass about 
Plymouth. 1 have never seen it west of the Tamar,’—T. R. ARCHER 
RIGGS, 
Lastrea cristata, Presl. Achmere, Cheshire. “This is a new locality 
for this rarity—if not the first time it has been recorded in Mid-Cheshire."' 
J. F. ROBINSON. ‘ 
Pseudathyriwm alpestre, Newman. This plant, which was pretty 
abundant along the cliffs in Glendole, Clova (but never seen at a lower 
level than 2,500 feet) was so eaten down by sheep, that it was with the 
greatest difficulty an old frond in fruit could be found. At the Well of 
ee, however, where there were no sheep to molest it, it was in great 
beauty. It is curious the preference the sheep have for this fern, for 
though there were other ferns of similar appearance growing along 
with it in abundance, they were never touched, but the Pseudathyrium 
mona it occurred was invariably eaten over.” —H. M. DRUMMOND- 
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Extracts and Abstracts. 
PLANTS FOUND ON THE SITE OF THE EXHIBITION OF 
1862, S. KENSINGTON. . 
the list) and other botanists growing on the site of the Exhibition of 
1862 at S. Kensington,—now a desolate weedy waste, and surrounded by 
ouses—from 1865 till the present time. Most, if not all, of these have 
been published in the ‘Flora of Middlesex’ (1869), or the pages of this 
Journal. As many as 160 species are enumerated, an their origin 1s 
traced to —** 1, the weeds originally indigenous to the ground; 2, plants 
formerly cultivated upon it; 3, seeds brought in packing material at the 
time of the Exhibition ; 4, seeds similarly brought at the time of the 
Botanical Congress, 1866.” 
