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and cote of its outer perianth-segments and the much broader . 
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stigma o do justice to the critical forms of Jris, a flower, to 
picatanichs each specimen, should be pulled to pieces, and the 
—Geo. Ni 
perianth-segments, stigmas, &c., dried separately cholson. 
Carea fulva, Good., var. sterilis, E. B. a ed. iii. —Swanbister, 
Orphir, Orkney, August, 1880.—J. T. Boswell. 
Spartina Townsenpt, H. and J. Groves.—Plant 14-4 feet high. 
Leaves falling short of the spikes ; lamina almost rp broadest at 
base, jointed to the sheath. Spikes usually somewhat 
crowded; glumes an hairy on the keel; rachis Gases the 
last spike let. This is the plant oe to by us in the ‘ Journal 
of B of S. ; 
. Townsendi differs from S. alterniflora by its more slender stem, 
leaves falling short of the spikes, and the laminwe ste g jointed to 
vi sheaths; from S. stricta by its much greater size, i Seine and 
ore numerous ise nd by the rachis much exceeding the last 
apikslos It grows in denser patches than either, mee is noticeable 
mong the somites by its taller stems and wer flowers. 
of Asa Gray’s ‘ Manual ;’ from Muhlenberg’s description, we thin 
his 8. glabra should be referred to 8. alterniflora, but have seen no 
specimens. Mud flats, near Hythe, South Hants.—H. and J. 
Groves. 
Aira . Ben Voistich; Perthshire, 1878.—J. Cosmo Melvill. 
exuosa, & very interesting form; it has three perfect flowers in 
a spikelet, and I never saw such a thing before. In the sections 
intermediates, although having come across the variety at as many 
as ten different stations in Herefordshire and other counties during 
the last few haga — weak secant 
autumn, are to be counted so. 
two grasses? I have repeate 
discovered it in ordimary asper, 
