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the Rev. E. S. Marshall, are probably (1) E. curta Fr, var. glubresceus 

 Wetts. W. Stony lane below Dungeon Ghyll. Grassy rocky hill- 

 sides at Grisedale, Eydal, and Tebay. (2) E. gracilis Fr. W. 

 Stony lane below Dungeon Ghyll. 



M dampy rum pratense Linn., var. /mms Druce. W. and 0. Abun- 

 dant in many localities between Windermere and Derwentwater. 



Orchis macxdata Linn., type, W. Windermere to Kirkstone 

 Pas^. Patterdale, C. Aira Force. — Var. ericetorum Linton. \V. 

 Langdale. By GoldrilL Howtown. C. Western side of Ulls- 

 water, opposite Howtown. 



Carex laevigata Sm. W. Patterdale, by a beck to the south- 

 west of the Parish Church, on the eastern slope of Black Rigg, 

 only slightly above the level of Ulls water ; very characteristic. 

 Described as "rare" in Mr. Baker's Flora, where, in addition to 

 one Cumberland locality, Westmoreland is only credited with the 

 record, " in some places about Windermere (F. Clowes)." 



*Festuca Myuros Linn. Wall-top in outskirts of Ambleside. A 

 luxuriant well-developed clump seen only as I drove past, but I 

 believe quite unmistakeable. 



PhegopU ru polypodioides Fee. W. Hill above Grasmere, towards 

 Easedale. 



Equisetum syhaticum Linn. C. Threlkeld Valley, in great 

 quantity. 



A REVISION OF BERSAMA. 



By Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. 



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The genus Bersama was described by Fresenius (Museum Sencken- 

 bergianum, ii. 279) in 1837. The original description, which differs in 

 one or two particulars from the description in Bentharn & Hooker's 

 Genera Plantarum, was as follows : — " Flores hermaphroditi 

 regulares in racemum oppositifoliuui dispositi. Calyx inferos 

 gamosepalus pentamerus, ob sepala 2 inferiora usque ad apiceni bi- 

 dentatum coalita 4-partitus. Corolla infera eleutheropetala, pe Q - 

 tamera, petala sepalis alterna aestivatione imbricata. Discus annu- 

 laris hvpogynus inter petala et stamina. Stamina 5 petalis alternft 

 fibuiienta infra in tubum ovarium cingentem coalita, anthers 

 filamentorum apici infra medium dorsi insertae, oscillatori® bilocu- 

 lares locuiis rima longitudinali dehiscentibus. Ovarium supernm 

 6-loculare. Stylus fihformis. Stigma capitatum 5-lobum lobia 

 crassis eiectis.— Arbor folus impanpinnatis, stipulis intrapetiolari- 

 bus, racemis oppositifoliis." 



One species, B, abyssinica, is described and figured from Gondar 

 \sauier, Tigre, Abyssinia, collected by Dr. Ruppell ; of this there 

 is a small specimen in the National Herbarium. 



Tne genus Xatalia was founded by C. F. Hochstetter [Flora 

 xxiv. 663 (1841)) on a plant now known as B. lucens Szyl., collected 

 by Krauss near the river Umlass in Natal. The principal charac- 

 ters differentiating it from the Bersama of Fresenius are the four 

 stamens, the anticous being connate at the base, the posticous free ; 



