152 NEW PHANEROGAMS PUBLISHED IN 1883. 
Hunstanton, a similar Peers plant, but of net straggling © 
growth, which careful examination induced m refer to J. 
’ Gerardi. These two sible % submitted to Mr. i. c. Wadi who 
of the two Junci. Although the stand as two species in edit. 7 of 
London Cat. B. P, I have still my own inclination to hold them 
states or varieties of one single species. Stress has been laid on the 
d growth of the inland compressus, as against the creeping 
er 
Watson sent me specimens of each of the itis: both of which 
agree with my Somersham Park plant in their roundish, blunt, 
abruptly-mucronate capsules; and the form from the ‘marshy 
meadow ” 1er agrees in habit with a plant I gathered last 
season at Welche’s Dam in a oa we on a p 
formed by the overflow or ‘‘ wash” of the Old Bedford, down 
e 
which the drainage of Somersham ask pena and which pro- 
bably brought the seeds from which the few plants sprang, from 
ence. Now in these Welche’s Dam plants the flower-stems are 
often produced quite singly, and the habit of growth is just a8 
creeping as that of any plant I have seen on the muddy shore at 
Hunstanton. Messrs. Arthur Bennett and W. H. Beeby, who 
have kindly examined these for me, concur in calling them Juncus 
compressus. All this goes to prove that we must not rely on habit 
of growth to ie us i rig he the nals marsh from the inland 
form ; but as yet I have found the shortly acuminate, strongly 
nl the 
mucronate capsule characteristic of Gerar di 0 nly in sea-side 
agrees. This a which seems to grow only by 'g — . 
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DURING 188 
THE periodicals cited in this list are: ‘Botanical Magazine, 
‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ — Plantarum,’ ‘Journal’ and ‘Trans- 
actions’ of Linnean Society of Landen’ ‘Proceedings of Royal 
ea Edinburgh.’ 
ve added in square brackets the publishers of certain ee 
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