348 EXTRACTS AND NOTICES. 
description there quoted from Lange ; never in the present variety. 
—Augustin Ley. I have read over the Rev. Augustin Ley’s 
notes, and in them I see he says that in late autumn weak panicles 
of asper often have the upper sheath glabrous; if this be so, I 
ink we must abandon Benekenii as a possible subspecies, as it is 
raised from seeds from the same individual plant.—J. T. Boswell. 
This seems to show that Benekenii is not sao attention, unless it 
is something unknown to me.— Babingto 
Asplenium ger manicum, Wei ss.—Pass of Lauber, June, 1871. 
This i is not the Swiss plant that goes by the name A. germanicum 
an uprig t crowth, and is surrounded by a thick girth of the 
“ 
Llanberis plant is somewhat tough and broader, and the fronds 
arch away from the centre, and are varnished like A. septentr ionale. 
I saw no surrounding of old broken-off fronds. On taking the 
Llanberis plant to Kew, a good many years ago, I found it was 
known as A. Breynii at the beginning of this century.—T. Butler. 
Just half-way between type yermanicum and type Ruta-muraria.— 
a mane A. Ruta-muraria, var. pseudo-germanicum, Milde !— 
J. T. Bosw 
Tsoetes Morei, D. Moore.—Lough Bray, Co. Wicklow, October, 
1880,—Fred. Moore. Ought never to have been named as 
species; it is only an interesting form of I. lacustris.—C. C. 
gton. 
Chara vulgaris, L., var. longibracteata.—Small tls near Shal- 
fleet, Isle of Wight, October, 1880.—George Nicholso 
C. frayilis, Desv., var. Hedwigit_Kingston, pee. October, 
tee Si pone ¥ Nicholson. 
of a epee Se aseete is po odto a large form of this species, among 
C, fragilis, Hedwigti, at Kingston. This is a very interesting dis- 
covery, as the plant has not been sa in England for many 
years, and is probably extinct in Borrer’s Sussex locality <G. 
Symphytum “ peregrinum, Ledeb.,” Baker. (S. pilonibowa: Nyman. 
S. ortentale, Fries (non Linn.) S. Donii, DC.? See ‘ Reports, 
cage Pea apg Club,’ 1878, p. 17, and 1879, p. 23.) Plentiful 
n the sides of a brook in the upper part of the Via Gellia, a 
wari oye mile below Grange Mill, between Cromford and 
Winster, Deans, 26th June, 1880. —Charles Ba iley. 
S. orientale, L.—Railway bank, Richmond, Surrey, 20th May, 
1880.—George Nicholson. 
Luzula albida, DC. —This plant was found in 1879, on a bank 
near Bletchingley, Sux Surrey, by Mr. William Mitten, who recorded 
it in the ‘ Gardeners’ icon tole’ for July 5th, 1879, and — 
that he ecneiddeot ‘‘its further discovery almost a certainty ” 
the moist shaded banks about Reigate. Having been favoned 
lana the exact locality, I visited the spot, but, after several hours’ 
arch in the neighbourhood, could see nothing but Mr. Mitten’s 
Re at tuft. A lengthened ‘residence in Reigate pba ‘the early 
