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Mr. Borrer’s Herbarium at Kew, he is inclined to think. that there 
is either a mixture of specimens of A. geniculatus and A. pratensis, 
or ee they are hybrids. If the latter be the case, probably 
- pronus is the same as A. pratensis-geniculatus Wichura (A. hy- 
bridus Wana, mentioned in Garcke’s Flora von Nord- und Mittel- 
Deutschland (ed. vi. p. 4388), of which I have specimens from 
Bremen, collected by Dr. Focke.” The supine ibs ig from a 
letter from Mr. Mitten will enable the plant to be struck out of our 
ists :-—‘ ‘3 am glad you asked me about Alopecurus ee of ree 
I cannot find that I have now any specimen remaining 
gathered it the appearance as to the flowers was so different fom 
. geniculatus that I was imposed upon by its altered state, which 
some time after I found was due to a minute insect wher had 
infested the flowers, and caused distortion in their for Mr. 
Mitten also mentions having found Empetrum silgrtth ms one of 
the sandy marshes by Poole Harbour, a large plant to all appear- 
ance from one original root, two yards i in diameter: we used to 
have this at Amberley.”—Arruur Benn 
PACTIS ATRORUBENS Schultes (. nee) —It must be remem- 
bered with regard to Fries’s H. media that E. microphylla Sw. was 
supposed for many years to be a Heandtievial species, and it is 
duly recorded as such as lately as 1879 by Hartman (Handb. 
Skand. Fl. 895). Fries (Summa Veg. Scand. 218) remarks: 
rg Mh varr. viridiflora et atrorubens Hoffm. eque jure in formis 
Fi. latifolie queras.” I have a Settle specimen whose leaves 
would en fit Fries’s remark quoted by Mr. Marshall. In the 
new edition of Hartman (1889) —— ae all the forms of 
Fi, latifolia under FE. Helleborine. ial 
Seuinum Carvirouia L. (pp. 2 sn, — I was grea to see Dr. 
F. A. Lees’s note on this species ; gt I think I may say I know 
n 
year by year. Perhaps I do not understand ‘‘the changes in our 
Flora’’; nevertheless I still adhere to my opinion that the Selinum 
where I saw it is not indigenous to er pcag My friend Mr, 
Fryer, who is far more able to judge than un was of the same 
doubt it. Dr. Lees may reasonably say I should not have used the 
word ‘‘wild’’ in conjunction with naturalized; it would have been 
better to have said ‘‘and looking wild,” which, of course, if 
naturalized, it does.—Arruur Bennerr. 
Tuesium Humirusum DC. in E. Kenrt.—The Rev. Ernest Ellman 
informs me that he found this plant (with which he is quite well 
acquainted, in Sussex) near Bishopsbourne (Dist. 7) some years 
