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pee than that of K. cristata. Spikelets 2—4- rt shorter than 
. cristata. Glumes almost of same length, as long as the 
Since or in the lower hardly so long, pointed, and slightly ciliate 
the Ww min hit 
eel, 
shining scarious margin; upper pale, membranous, terminated at 
the narrowed point in two unequal, rather long, narrow, pointed 
teeth. Sacer usually purplish, rarely yellow. 
Ascherson & Graebner, in Synopsis der Mitt. Europaischen Flora, 
i. p. 854, ait our plant (under the name X. vallestana) in the section 
of Keleria—A. Atrochloa, subsection i., which is distinguished by 
the characters: ‘‘ Leaf-sheath parting finally into fine web-like 
threads woven in coils, surrounding the rootstock with a compact 
t web. Panicle close’’; whereas A. cristata is put in sub- 
$ re) ; 
interrupted at base.’’ In aon o these characters the hoor 
green 
leaves 
the more convolute leaves, ear ye means of iden ion. 
ur British specimens differ from the type only in the pube- 
scence of the culm, which Gaudin does not mention, but which 
occurs in Swiss specimens from the Jura (not from Wallis), but the 
character is not a constant or important variation, although some- 
times giving a different aspect to the plant. Prof. Hackel tells me 
that such a form is described by Timbal-Lagrave in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
France, xi. 1389, Paik under the name K. setacea Var. intermedia, 
s, whence Prof. Hackel has a specimen from 
n 
ecently examined further material from Uphill, 
and identifies some ‘with the var. glabra and some as _ the var. alpi- 
cola Gren. & Godr., but not typical. They are the intermedia of 
Timb. spas itself a form of var, alpicola. 
The ieee of our sass: is as follows :— 
K@Leria sPLE 8 
Gramen ieleas Sianum, tenuifolium, paniculé spicata, viridi- 
a splendente: J. Scheuchzer Aygrostographia, 169 
(17 
Spica Sparti, foliis reflexis angustis glaucis ga radice crassa 
e — : Dillenius in litt. to Richar » Oct. 8, 1726; 
— 
in Her 
Vance pinot ni ad in Act. Mem. Acad. Toul. iii. 379 
1788). 
aes valesiana All. auct. 40 (1789). 
- vallesiaca Sut. Fl. Helv. i. 40 (1802). 
{In connection with 
of engravings in the National B Herbari arium, which were sence in Herb. perm 
and are labelled ‘‘ Found among Dillenius’ i) cdl * an excellent figure of the 
it : ced on Plate wee a saatered Spar ontanum, radice bulbosa, 
Fungosa, doubtless i hr imei Mr. Druce su; fs. chon ayes another edition of Ray’s 
Synopsis.—Ep. Journ. Bor. 
