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nearly so, often serrated sharply for the whole leugth of the 
subula; sometimes flattened for a great part of the length of the 
leaf, at others becoming incurved and tubular from the base; the 
nerve varying from one-fifth to two-thirds the width of the leaf at 
base, often from a quarter to more than a alf in the same plant ; 
the auricles frequently most distinct, beautifully coloured, large, an 
wider than the rest of the leaf, but occasionally hardly a de- 
veloped ; while similar variations occur in the areolation of the 
rest of the leaf-base. 
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sometimes hyaline; when dry, flexuose. The lid of the fruit, in 
the only specimen where it is retained, is short and conical, hardly 
rostellate, and not more than one-third the length of the capsule. 
The var. paludosus seems to be of fairly general occurrence ; I 
have found it, for instance, on Cynicht, N. Wales; near Lynd- 
hurst in the New Forest ; and on Gurnard’s Head, W. Cornwall. 
ar. paradowus. —— Helvellyn, 1891. Tyn-y-groes, Dolgelly, 
1890. Walberswick, Suffolk, 1885. 
C. atrovirens var. epilosus Braithw.—-Penmaenmawr, 1892. 
C. atrovirens var. falcatus Braithw.—Doocharry Bridge, Donegal, 
Growing in the same tuft with a fairly typical form, and with other 
stems showing various intermediate stages of the faleate condition. 
C. brevipilus B. & S.—Also a very variable species. One form 
in the New Forest, from its general habit and the 
unusually long hair-points, simulated C. introflecus. Another very 
pretty plant, of a dark bronze-green, with the hair-points almost 
obsolete, the auricles distinct (perhaps var. auriculatus Ferg.), and 
the leaves tubular from the base upwards, grew in almost the same 
spot. 
: This species appears to be rare in Wales, but I found it in 1888, 
near Llyn Idwal, Carnarvonshire. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
J.—Ray’s Herparium. 
Tux translation by Mr. Joseph Lucas of Kalm’s Account of his 
Visit to England on his way to America in 1748 (selected from his 
En Resa til Norra Amerika) contains a passage which throws an 
interesting light upon the present condition of the Rayan Her- 
barium now preserved in the Botanical Department of the British 
useum. 
This Herbarium, as stated in this Journal for 1863, p. 32, was 
transferred from the Apothecaries’ Company’s Garden at Chelsea 
to the British Museum in 1862. It may be worth while, as many 
present readers of the Journal do not possess the earlier volumes, 
