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Continent, and find that these characters hold good. Crépin 
(Notes Pl. Rares Belg. fase. i. 13 (1859) has a useful note on 
A. odorata :—* Le fruit, chez lA. odorata, offre presque toujours 
deux akénes & la maturité, et si, par hasard un des ovaires vient 
avorter, les sillons du calice se montrent plus marqués, sans 
igre ndant arriver 4 la longueur de ceux de l’A. Eupatoria. Dans 
e dernier cas la forme du tube calicinal, celle du bourrelet 
ecouauid le fruit & la maturité, pa que la direction des épines 
ne sont point altérées. Les caractéres distinctifs de l'une et 
autre espéce ne semblent point dépendre d’un développemiets 
plus ou moins eset agonal id pea grands pieds del’A. Eupatoria, 
cultivés ou sauvages, oujours le facies propre a cette 
espéce.” I note the reais na lial as glands, often 
in abundance, on the under side of the leaves in A. odorata. These 
glands are occasionally css d on the eave of the commoner 
are mu 
aie often rounded, and not obscure as in A. Hupatoria. The 
furrows in the — are sometimes obsolete in A. odorata.— 
A. Bruce Jack 
——AMr. A. B. science lately revised my herbarium-sheets. In 
Journ. Bot. 1914, p. 165, a plant from Fortingal, Mid-Perth (my 
no. 3789), was queried as A. Hupatoria var. sepiwm Bréb.; but he 
writes (confirming our original opinion): “I should refer this 
without much hesitation to A. odorata. The pubescence is too 
So fase as material without fruit goes, Mr. Jackson’s oe 
seems to be a very likely one.-—Epwarp S. MarsHatu. 
BrancHeD SprKe in Horpeum murinum L. —I recently 
gathered on an embankment at Kew ioe ae nego 
Mid a stem of Hordewm murinum 
@ smaller lateral spike arising on each side ek cee below the 
