PHANEROGAMIC AND FERN FLORA OF SUSSEX. 299 
Saal 1 line deep, tinged with purple. Stamens,twice as loag as the 
a px, LAXIFLORUM, T n. sp; foliis planis apice int:gris venis 
iculis o-thyrsoideis laxis ebracteatis, ramulis 
, nspieu pan 
Moncatis léridoris pedis aiio staminibus inclusis. 
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exico, Ændrie y only knowledge of this is from a sin ngle 
herbarium ‘edison E male flowers. It i s evidently an unpublished 
exactly that of the undisputed Dasylirions, but the inflorescence very 
different. Leaf ensiform, 2 feet long, $ inch broad above the sud- 
e veins fine and ges an the stramineous prickles and denticulations 
quite similar to those the species already described, but both rather 
stronger. Panicle eae reoi, a foot long by half as broad, the branches 
very numerous fascicled ebracteate, the lower co opiously panieled, the 
(To be continued.) 
SUMMARY ANALYSIS OF THE PHANEROGAMIC AND FERN 
FL 
LORA OF SUSSEX. 
By W. B. HEMSLEY. 
(Read at the Moeting of the British Association, August 19th, 1872). 
Limiting ourselves to the standard species of British plants, as 
scribed in our books up to about the year 1850, the botany of this county 
" possibly a as well known as that of any district in Englan , having been 
thoroughly ng mabey by such men as Borrer Woods, Jenner, Smith and 
a n we come to the critical forms of later a meee M 
information i is ay no means so complete, and, whether these forms 
ered as (ais sub-species, or varieties, is of little importance trots our 
stand dpoint, sepa Menon rank we may assign to them, their distri- 
, Taking Bablugtov's s “Mansa (fifth edition) for our guide, about 1000 
indigenous species (including ferns and horsetails) are known to grow in 
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as species. In addition to these proba ably, E a i species, 59 others 
; reti Madey are known to be introducti mber does not 
alien species reported from a single locality kil paonr by 
a plant or two only. T 
actual a, at of a pa send critical forms and intro 
4 M Species), is described in a, consequent y the numbers and 
