112 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Rumex ——. By lake, Hawkesyard, Staffordshire, Aug. 1900. 
This Dock is very like conglomeratus, but pedicel-joints are very low 
down, as in sanguineus.— H. P. Reader. This Dock is intermediate, 
as Mr. Reader states, between conglomeratus and sanguineus. I have 
compared it with authentic material of R. conglomeratus var. Borrert 
imen in Journ. Bot. xiv. p. 810, a plant coming from burgess 
Hill, described as intermediate between nemorosus and conglomeratus, 
but the whorls in var. Borreri are more leafless, and it is muc 
more strongly trituberculate. It therefore does not agree with this 
variety. The only other British named variety of conglomeratus 
with which I am acquainted is var. subsimplex Trimen in J 
to which he has given the name R. Ruhmeri: 
hybrid lie before me. One has the habit of R. sanguineus, with 
erecto-patent short branches, whose few-flowered whorls are leafy 
ape 
The other form, observed between Zdbschen and Unterkaka, near 
{ 
developed, but for the most part empty. I observed similar forms 
also on the Ettersberg. On account of such forms a 
the two species were previously united by many botanists.” I doubt 
Mr. Reader’s plant being either of the forms of the hybrid—the 
fruit is too good for one thing. It is a very interesting plant, an 
I very much doubt if there is a published name that will exactly 
fit it—E. G. Baker. 
Cyperus fuscus L. Peaty valley below Weston-in-Gordano, 
North Somerset, Sept. 27, 1900.—J. W. White. A beautiful series 
of the plant from North Somerset, from which county it was re- 
corded in Journ. Bot. 1900, p. 446. These specimens are unusually 
tall and fine; similarly luxuriant plants, however, occur in the Kew 
Herbarium, labelled ‘‘ Hillbrook Meadow, Little Chelsea. Coll. 
Stevens, Sept. 1847."—E. 8. & C. H. 8. 
Scirpus cernuus Vahl, var. pygmaeus (Kunth). Carradale, Cantire, 
Aug. 28, 1898. Coll. A. M. Geldart.—H. D. Geldart, The name 
pygmeus cannot be used for the present plant, as Kunth intended 
by it identically the Scirpus cernuus of Vahl, which Kunth himself 
quotes (Enum. Pl. ii. p. 191) as a synonym. Apparently the proper 
oa oie present ora tsaa however, can scarcely be ver 
i anything more than a form—is var. mo s Hook. Stud. 
Fl. 400 (1870).—C. B. Clarke. et 
