306 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
chalk débris, but I doubt its being native. B. secalinus and B. ra 
mosus have both been suggested ; but I do not think either fits ‘6 
It has remarkably small and stain spikelets.—E. 8. Mar- 
sHaLL. This is, Br —_ brachystachys Hornung, in Flor. a, Xvi. (1833), 
ii. 417 m Syria), 
introduced long ago in Northern Germany. The introduction in 
zac seems more recent; I find it nowhere mentioned. —kH. 
Hackeu. 
ACK L. filiformis Trin. var. pyenanthus ener eh in lit., not 
previowsly recorded i in tesa is only casual in Bucks. 
REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF. BOTANY, ‘BRITISH MUSEUM, 1903. 
By Georce Murray, F.R.S. 
- additions to the collections by presentation have con- 
sisted of :—81 phanerogams and 6 cryptogams of Singapore, from 
Ridley; 16 phanerogams an eryptogam of Shanghai, 
from F. W. Styan ; ; 43 specimens from reo tan and Venezuela, 
from ‘I. Sprague; 595 phanerogams and 40 cryptogams, collect 
by A. Robert in the province of Matto Grom (Brazil) and Para- 
guay, from Mrs. Percy Sladen; 266 phanerogams and 4 cryptogams 
of Johannesburg, from Dr, F. Ra nd; 80 phanerogams and 5 
eryptogams, Canadian, from James M. Macoun; 301 phanerogams 
from Uganda, from Col. Delmé-Radclifie; 8 Korean eeoresrs: 
from Dr. J. Pale bin; 5 grasses of Ceylo on, from J. 
259 phanerogams, Indian, from Major Prain ; 13 phan Scams of 
North America, from P. E. F. Pérrédes ; 90 aN Hc of South- 
west Africa, from Dr. Schinz; 60 phanerogams and 1 cryptogam 
of cage 2 Africa, from H. T. Ommanney; 58 phanerogams, Chinese, 
Henry; 8 specimens of Bombay plants, from Dr. A. 
Phealare Cooke ; 66 phanerogams and 48 eryptogams, from Mount 
Roraima, collected by Messrs. pg and epi 38 speci- 
mens. from Korea, from Arthur Bennett; 48 from the 
Funafuti Coral Reef, from the ST Steep Siac 2 a of 
ihe Royal Society; 36 Hepatice from Jamaica er Cuba, from 
. W. Evans; 11 species of India Ocean alge and a rare fern 
