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the opportunity of sprooceree ern collected by Mr. Mavicar in 
Scotland and Mr. F. Cavers in Devonshire, I have also paid a special 
visit to Dolgelly this seh hare ‘ area the species in great 
abundance and in good fruiting condition, and am able to confirm 
accurate determination of Mr. Macvicar ; some of the plants are 
dioicous, iahiors monoicous, and sites paroicous.—W. H. Pxarson. 
= 
Bromus interruptus (p. 67).—I cannot agree that a description 
= as that given by Mr. H.C. zh this in the Phytologist, omitting 
a form of B. mollis u 
worthy of olige acterization. The claim that a valid publication was 
made by Miss Barnard sendin g numbered specimens to the Botanical 
Society of London is also, in “my opinion, untenable. The case is 
absolutely different from sets of plants duly numbered, such as 
Schultz’s Herbarium Normate, which are publicly issued for sale; 
nor do they come under numbered sets of identical plants, such as 
those issued by Hooker and Thomson, &c. The Botanical Society 
of London was only a private society ; the plants which were sent 
out year by year were only sent to a portion of the members, and 
were never a ilable to the outside world. The number 1356¢ shows 
that Miss Barnard meant it to be considered as a variety only of 
ris nollie since the Catalogue of British Plants then current gives 
1356 B. sey and 13565 as var. racemosus. If this were allowed, 
some 300 or 400 names which appear in the desiderata list of the 
Botanical Gusiaties Club would have to be cited as species, since 
they, too, althongh only obs ata are written in the same way as 
B. , pseudo- oat Mr. Dayd nd ackson writes : AT should main- 
: au a f 
ciently diagnosed by Watson, and was not issued as a public set of 
exsiccata of identic specimens, The parcels of the Botanical Society 
were put up by a man who was no botanist, and could not run down 
a plant by published ; Goon Bee (fide Watson), and were not on sale 
to the public, so even on the br oadest basis of publication they seem 
to be unable to su ipo the case.””’ I am now able to put the oe- 
currence of B, interruptus in Herts beyond question, as I found it 
abundantly between Aldbury and Tring recently. Mr. Hilton has 
foun ee ex CuarmcE Druce. 
ink Mr. Druce is right in objecting to the number in 
anita: as equivalent to publication. I cannot recognize that 
there is any parity between the position of the nomina nuda in a 
list of desiderata and that of PB. pseudo- velutinus; but Mr. Druce is 
anxious that his Lt should be printed. Against Mr. Jackson’s 
Opinion must be set that of Mr. Hiern aad the Messrs. oo who 
think that pseudo- Braseaus should be maintained. How the ignorance 
or knowledge of the man who “ put up the parcels” a affect the 
specimens and their tickets, or Watson's published note, I am not 
able to imagine.—James Bart TTEN, 
Journat or Borany.—Vor. 42. [Juny, 1904.] od 
