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fructibus nervis acutioribus rostroque evidentiori, recto, bracteis 
erecto-patentibus ; culmis decurvis.—(Nomen tumidicar ‘pa, Bot. Not 
get rea In some respects it is in ntermediate. 
C. a xX Ciperr. Mid Perth: Creag Mhor, Glen Lochay, 
A, Scmaisiite 1889. Sussex E.: Copyhold, Cuckfield, Mrs. Davy, 
1903, and near Colman’s Hatch, Ashdown Forest, 1896. 
the only obviously sterile spikes are those on the Cuckfield plants. 
CG. xeripocarra Tausch. Somerset N.: Max Bog, Winscombe, 
J. W. White, 1908. Kent: Keston Common, 1846 (hb. R. Pryor). 
See Rep. rigs Exch. Club for 1892, 390. 
A much more frequent plant in "Scotland than in England. 
C. riparia Curt. var. nummtis Uechtr. Sussex W.: near Brew- 
hurst Mill, Loxwood, 1902. 
irst mentioned by Fiek, Fl. Schlesien. 492 (1881), as under :-— 
“C. riparia Curt. y humilis Uechtr. More dwarf (0°40-0°50 m.), 
smaller in all its parts; leaves shorter, only 3-6 mm. broad, strongly 
greyish green; female spikelets usually 2, more distant, 0°20- 
C. oer Host.” (U. in 1 
erson & Bar e c. 216) say that this is a “‘ forma nana 
froclliwe™ with err: fruits, which Christ notes in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. Belg. xxvii. 2, 163, may perhaps be a hybrid with C. distans. 
A very neat little plant, with small spikes of a different outline 
to those of riparia, and the glumes and perigynia also differ, the 
former not so long asin type. Plant about 18 in. high. Hardly 
likely to be a hybrid with distans in this locality. 
MYCETOZOA FROM JAPAN. 
By Arraur Lister, F.R.S., and Gutretma Lister, F.L.S. 
In January, 1906, the Botanical es of the British 
Museum received forty-six specimens of Mycetozoa, consisting of 
twenty-nine species, presented by Mr. Kumagusu u Minakata, who 
collected them rig: the I 1902 to = in Kii, the oe 
under our notice was sent by Prof. Miyoshi, of Tokio, in 1902, to 
Prof, Marshall Ward, and is now in the Cambridge Herbarium. It 
consists of specimens of eighteen species, noticed in this Journal 
for see (p. 97). Of these, nine appear again in the following list, 
and are marked with a star. The total number of species of Myce- 
