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84 SHORT NOTES. 
Fresh specimens to an expert, = the genus is (jide Mr. Geo. Nichol- 
son) most difficult to judge of when dried. These plants were quite 
different in mses and ag of growth from the ordinary form of 
versicolor.—Epw. SHALL. 
Two NEW FoRMS oF Grasses For Britain.—Aarostis alba var. 
subjungens Hackel, nov. var.! Southport, Lata **On sandy 
ground, July, 1884, F. C. King.” ‘‘I never saw any form of this 
polymorphous species with so rigid foliage as in the present speci- 
men. Perhaps this is due to local influence.” (Prof. Hackel in mG 
This may Sa. so; but on the sandy coasts of Norfolk, Suffolk 
age and Kent I have never seen anything like these specimen 
and have never seen any such collected i others. It was collated 
for os Wats son Bot. Ex. Club, and oe hope Mr. King will again 
gather it, so that it may be wide ay Kei kno 
Festuca sciuroides var. intermedia Hackel. HOV. Yar. ! ncn ges 
Surrey, 1884 to 1886, Arthur Bennett. “This is a very i 
ne 
uppermost sheath, while the characters of the spikelet are those 
of sciwroides.”’ (Hackel in litt.). is grass has puzzled fo 
these three years past. In 1885 I sent afore to Prof. Hackel, 
but they were sent too late and he wrote—‘‘A puzzling for 
looking somewhat anomalous and Bie Rulon Please shave it 
next season.”” It is most abundant at Mitcham, and I hope to get 
a good supply this — for distribution through the Exchange 
Club.—Arruur Benne’ 
CHANGE OF ae THE FLowERs oF ANEMONE NEMOROSA.— 
To the carefnl observer it is er apparent that the colour of certain 
flowers varies considerably according to the different classes of 
rock on which they grow, a fact that was never more forcibly 
composition of the rocks on A whieh the p form of 
wood-sorrel shouts about here will fully ex aia the transition 
of color from white to purple in the flowers of this pretty little 
plant. Na: 
bret remarks, but as the places are private an 
n of the plant is quite out of the question. —A. D. 
Wi” 
PRUNELLA vutearis L. var, atpa.— Two plants of this common 
continental form were found oes me at Hinchwick Warren, near 
