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bases of the prickles, and the larger panicle ; and from both Py the 
glandular development, and the absence of acicles. Localitie 
Monmouth: Trelleck, abundantly; first in 1890. Flint: The pee 
heads, near Molde; 1898. West Kent: Hedges near Halstead, 
abundantly, Rev. W. M. Rogers!; 1899. The st “4 = ae has 
rounder leaves and more slender prickles than t t plant; 
which, growing in full exposure and in a less sr lee has 
also a redder stem and more felted leaves.—Aveustin Ley 
GLYCERIA FESTUCEFORMIS IN [RELAND (p. 77). — The reply of Mr. 
Praeger to my remarks on the possibility of this grass being an 
peciats in Co. ede does not embrace all that should be said To 
get at the truth in a question of natural history like this, both 
sides ‘halt "18 duly stated and weighed. Mr. Praeger is an able 
-advocate, but he is a special pleader. For there is an omission 
in his reply which reduces the force of his elaborate arguments. 
Though I know Strangford Lough and the Ards, and the Quoil, 
and Comber for nearly fifty years, and think I might be able to 
show Mr. Praeger eos things about their plants and casuals which 
he does not know w, I must acknowledge that I got the idea of the 
seed of Glyceria paves a being introduced with grain in a 
foreign ship from Mr. Praeger him self. His words in his eae 
account of his "Miehieete in the ‘Ania are :— That the plant is 
indigenous there can be no shadow of doubt. In the whole of 
The words mean nothing else. In his rep Mr. Praeger does not 
take the slightest notice oh peng made this admission. But he 
cannot getoverit. Then as to the mills aaa distillery at Comber :— 
Mr. Praeger, who in his original account did not even allude to their 
existence, tells us now that he knew all about them, and the seeds 
they deposit about Comber; While he would have ae understand that 
nothing but pee corn-weeds and seeds are ever im rted with barley 
fro editerranean source, y ow of fourteen prises that hav 
been from Ha to time so imported, and specimens of som se 
so 
are now in my herbarium. It would be an interesting experiment to 
get a bag of the siftings and a yesuiied that contain these foreigners, 
and grow them for a season. Mr. Praeger argues as if I had stated 
I quoted, was the only Mediterranean A i that had ever been 
used in Comber. I have a guess that some of ‘he barley that has 
been coming into the British Islands to the enormous amount of 
150,000. tons per annum, chiefly from Asia Minor and the Levant, 
has come to Comber. And this it is which, owing to careless 
growing and threshing, is the source of the foreign “seeds whic 
are everywhere, and which give rise to the multitudes of casuals 
found about distilleries and malt-houses And though Mr. Praeger 
mountain range called Taurus. Mr. Praeger says (p. 79): “G. 
