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Jackson, Journ. Bot. 1898, 274, and Miss C. E. Palmer, Journ. 
Bot. 1902, 264) ; Middlesex x (Deuce, sear ci oo. 319); Oxford 
Berks (Druce, Rep. Bot. Exch. Club, , , p. 240, and Flo 
pea Journ. 1892, -p. 106) ; Cambridge (Marshall Ward, 
m litt.) ; Herts (Barnard, 1040); Beds; Northants; Lincoln, South 
(Tufnail, 1890). 
[I have pointed out to Mr. Druce that in my judgement and in 
that of others whom I have consulted, Miss Barnard’s name must 
stand for the plant which we have been calling B, interruptus Druce. 
It is true there is no description, although some of the points 
fied upon by Mr. Druce as distinguishing the plant—e. g. the 
greater height and the ‘more close or compact’’ panicle—are 
clearly indicated by Watson; but the distribution ‘‘ among leading 
public collections, of numbered specimens, accompanied by printed 
or autograph tickets; bearing the date of the sale or distribution,”’ 
which is considered by the Decandollean laws as constituting Hert 
cation, is in tbe main fulfilled by Miss Barnard’s ticket: ‘‘ 1856 
Bromus pseudo-velutinus. Odsey, Herts. June 1849. M. amnard 
coll, & comm.” I do not know how widely the plant may have 
been distributed—now that attention has at last been called to it, 
Miss Barnard’s specimens may be found in many herbaria—but it 
appears from Watson’s note Ges e. 810) that the Botanical Society 
at that time numbered ‘‘ near two hundred and fifty members.’”’ I 
think therefore that the sien given by Mr. Druce must be 
reversed, and that the species must stand as B. pseudo-velutinus 
Barnard; hardly, I think, even if the generally ignored Art. 5 
be followed, as of Watson, as the names therein “directed to - 
individualized by the addition of the name of the author who 
publishes them are those from ‘non-distributed collections.’’— 
Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
NATION OF Prate 457a.—Bromus interruptus. 1, Flowering culm, 
m § oie ime en sent by Mr. Druce from Upton, Berks; 2, Floret opened to show 
split glume (enlarged). 
VIOLA CALCAREA AS A SPECIES. 
By Mrs. E. 8. Greeory. 
(Prats 4578.) 
For many years I have studied ee genus Viola with much care, 
more especially the hybrids of V. odorata x hirta and the so-called 
variety calcarea of V. hirta. This latter plant grows wn on the 
meter hills of Somerset, and was identified for me some yea 
o by Mr. Beeby. Since then the growing plant has ten under 
= close observation during the spring and early summer of each 
year. Neither in its wild state nor under cultivation does it change 
its very marked characteristics. I have also examined carefully the 
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