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once seen fresh can never after be mistaken. — C. hirtah. *3. 

 Boadside near Blyford, 1896! — The Carex from Weston Fen 

 appears to be young C. rostrata, and not a hybrid. 



410. Serrafalcus mollis Pari. b. S. qlabrescens Coss. *4. Dun- 

 wich, 1896 ! 



411. Triticum repens L. var. barbatum. *4. Walbersw ick, 

 1896! 



419. Lastrea cemula Brack. 3. In a copse at Lound. Cannot 



pass as this species, which therefore must be rejected for the 

 present as a Suffolk plant. 



426-428. Char a fragilis Desv. d. (7. Hedwigii Kuetz. 1. 

 Suffolk W. The precise locality is Coney Weston Fen. — G. aspera 

 Willd. 4. Eedgrave Fen. The specimen so named is a mixture 

 of polyacantha and hispida, but the Fen also produces C aspera ! — 

 C. contraria Kuetz. 1. Lakenheath? The specimen is C. hispida, 

 but Mr. Hind found true G. contraria at Livermere in 1885. — C. 

 vulgaris L. b. C. long ibr act eata Kuetz. 1. Livermere. The speci- 

 men so named is C. hispida, but var. long ibr act eat a has also 

 occurred in this locality. — C. vulgaris L. c. C. papillata Wallr. 

 1. Thelnetham. The specimen is merely a mixture of vulgaris 

 and hispida. 



429. Nitella opaca Agardh. 2. Suffolk East. The precise 

 locality is Hopton, near Yarmouth. 



A NATURAL BERBEBIS-UYBiaJ) IN ENGLAND. 



By Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



On September 23rd, 1907, 1 found a very large Barberry-shrub, 

 extending for about twenty feet and fully ten feet high, in the 

 hedgerow of a narrow, unfrequented lane, midway between the 

 hamlet of Bossington and Hurlstone Point, v.-c. 5 S. Somerset. 

 Its general appearance is that of a very fine B. vulgaris, and I 

 should probably have passed it by, but for the very different fruit. 

 A brief examination of the characters convinced me that it was a 

 hybrid between the common Barberry and the shrubbery plant of 

 our gardens, B. aquifolium ; and this determination is fully borne 

 out by comparison with the parents, which I happen to have 

 growing. B, vulgaris occurs in a wood above Bossington, as well 

 as in several hedges about Allerford and Selworthy, and I think it 

 probably native. B. aquifolium is occasionally planted as cover 

 for game, and may have been thus introduced on the Acland 

 property. I believe that B. vulgaris is the female parent ; the 

 agency both of insects and birds must, I think, have contributed 

 to its production, as the locality is about half a mile from the 

 nearest house, 



B. aquifolium x vulgaris. — Bark grey-brown on the older, 

 yellowish on the younger, wood. Thorns mostly in groups of 

 three, as in vulgaris, but as a rule shorter, seldom exceeding 

 £ in. Leaves simple, rather light green, sessile or shortly stalked 



