NOTES ON ‘THE LONDON CATALOGUE,’ ED. 10 317 
9 nor are Hudson’s citations from old writers sufficiently 
777. C. muricata L. (Parr F. Schultz). Besides the evi- 
iss of the t e-specimen, the definition Poe ge acutis diver- 
gentibus spinosis ” (the italics are mine) in Sp. Plant. appears to 
me decisive. Their patent fruit is a marked et about C. Pairei 
and C. Leersti, as compared with C. con ae 
783. C. curt a s is contributing to 
Journ. Bot. a paper dealing with this wcestb in detail, I will merely 
ay now that Go meee ame is antedated, and cannot 
reta }, s L. is untenable used at all, it should 
displace C. divulsa Good.) but C. canescens Lightf. (1777) appears .- 
to be valid. he Catalogue varieties will therefore stand as 
b. robustior reas and ec. fallax F 
1790. C. mis Curt. d. GRACILESCENS. Kiikenthal jae : 
think, the au athority for this name, under gracilis.—e. er 
iikenth. Ki 
Canal near Tumor Surrey. It has not been previously suiished 
as British, and I have not seen his descriptio: 
1793. C. aquarmis Wahl. ¢. cusprpata. ems with cuspi- 
date glumes occur in Scotla: on but whether they are identical 
with the plant of Laestadius is doubtful; they may be hybrids 
with salina. 
1820. C. pistans L. Var. litoralis And. is clearly a form or 
subvariety of the maritime var. or subspecies, C. pees Degl. 
1829. a—1 
S 
variety) and 238 that eine wished to substitute his Sik name for 
that of Linneus: ‘Nomen Linneanum certum, sed incongruum 
e 
form (C. pulla var. dichroa Blytt) is (I atid rare in Scotland ; 
I have lately received from Mr. Peter Ewing characteristic speci- 
mens gathered on Ben ee Mid-Perth, and a more inter- 
mediate plant from Ben La 
1841. Spartina Townsenni H. & J. Groves. If a hybrid, this 
must be surprisingly fertile; two or three years ago Mr. C. E. 
Salmon informed me that it t had been di scovered at New Romney, 
E. Kent, where I do not think that it existed in 1890. 
1866. Acrostis TENUIs Sibth. A. pumila L. was cultivated 
at Shirley by Rev. W. R. Linton, and at ae a d to type; it 
is therefore omitted, as only a diseased co 
1894, ARRHENATHERUM ELATIUS Mert. - ie BIARISTATU. 
The authority is Druce, Petermann’s name acing Sis published 
under A. avenaceum Beauv. 
