848 SHORT NOTES. 
drawing attention to the fact first pointed out by Rees in 1870, 
that G. sabine has two kinds of spores, one smaller, paler, and 
narrower than the other. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Junous pirFusus Hoppe.—I found this rush this summer on 
North Leigh Heath, in Oxfordshire, and shortly after met with it 
in another Oxfordshire locality, by Grove Wood near Kingham, 
close to the Gloucestershire boundary, and again in marshy ground 
near Oddington in the latter county. In all these places glaucus 
and effusus grew with it. In addition to Babington’s very good 
description, another character mentioned in ‘English Botany’ 
appears constant—the darker colour of the sheaths. I find that 
G. C. Druce 
AsnormaL Fiowers or Tropzotum.—-One of the most curious 
the cuttings from which the plants are grown were all taken 1 
autumn from the same plant. The spurs of many of the flowers 
suppressed; but they are actually turned outside in, the pomts of 
the inverted spurs being seen in the interior of the flower, above z 
