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Lloyd says, of — three species and P. variabilis Goupil (veris 
x vulgar ris) : —‘ Ces 4 plantes cultivées ensemble produisent des 
hybrides a Vinfini’ ’—Epwarp §. Marsnatt. 
aLPIna IN Sxye.—The addition of a new alpine plant to 
the Flora of Great Britain is a matter of high interest. During 
short visit to the Island of Skye, I spent two days climbing the 
various peaks of the Cuchullin range. These mountains are 
almost uniformly naked rock and very steep, with dangerous cliffs 
and corries. The summits and ridges are in many parts over 3000 
h 
has generally been considered the highest. The cliffs are of in- 
tractable Lethal oe steep and bare that there is exceedingly 
Alchemilla alpina, Arabis petrea, Saussurea alpina, Oxyria reniformis, 
Saxifraga stellaria, Cerastium alpinum, Azalea procumbens, and to my 
great surprise, drabis alpina, a Pp ant with which I was pecs 
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soc A to Lapland, Greenland and Norway; and I have no 
doubt as to the spre a in which my friend, Mr. A. G. 
More entirely agrees.—H. C. Harz. 
JUNCUS COMPRESSUS Sas acq. in NortH Somerset. —I send you 
specimens of this rush, which grows abundantly in isagows near 
the River Clew, between Stanton Drew and Pensford, I have 
found ee but quite digger in the Keynsham Hams. ° 
Boswell, in E. B. ed. observes that the only characters 
whereby z compressus can he distinguished from J. Gerardi, are its 
more cespitose habit, with the stems closer together, and more 
; sp 
e larger, ; . 
however, from both the ere ocalities, as well as some which 
: gathered last year, at Bitton in W. Gloucester, in addition to the 
aracters noted by Dr. Boswell , show i in . well-marked manner | 
the others sitigned'ié o the species by of the authorities, viz., 
stem with one leaf on in the middle, a slant the panicle, and 
perianth segment falling short of the obovoid shortly mucronate 
capsule. J. compressus, 1 believe, has not been re count previously 
for any a of the county of Somerset Dave Bie 
Monstrous Frowers or Exa.—I am sen ding a twig of elm with 
good imitation of immature ovaries or young its. In some 
flowers ca winged aera 
ones. The 
