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abnormal forms and possibly hybrids tear though not frequent, 
may be difficult to determine. It is so with other species of this 
genus. Very diminutive starved spe is ns are occasionally to be 
& ich difficult to dustingusinh from similarly 
starved specimens of FE. gracilis Fr., ll-grown examples of 
these species could not be confound very interesting form 
1 
Gu in. yi in ore er by 10 mm. (§ in.) in width. The capsules are 
3 in.) in length by 4 centim. (nearly 4, in.) in width 
The internodes are long. The spike is interrupted below, as is 
eminently characteristic of the species. The flowers are small, and 
do not partake of these exuberant proportions.—Frepx. TownsEND. 
Lyrarum Grarrrert Ten. 1x 8. Devoy.—A single specimen of 
this sarah was gathered by Miss E. Butler i in a little-frequented 
lane near Bovey Heath, Bovey Tracey, in August last. There 
were no yey Dee near, om the place is rather close to a line of rail- 
way.—R. F. Townpro 
OUGEOTIA IMMERSA poe Bot. 1902, 144).—I described this 
plant. from India as a new species of Mougeotia ; having received a 
further supply of specimens, I find it will be better — under 
the newer ee Debarya as Debarya immersa,.— WEs 
“ALOPECURUS HYBRIDUS IN LizIcesTERSHIRE.—Last summer, while 
examining the oak herbage bordering the Trent, at a point where 
the river separates Nottinghamshire from Esronenahae, near Keg- 
orth, I alig atensis X 
geniculatus). This straggling sanbaditig habit was excl _ of 
p. 282, and further examination showed i ess eee 
exactly intermediate between A. pratensis and A. geniculatus. Fi 
J. E. Bagnall, in his Flora of Staffordshire, makes no mention of 
the osbuerieneat of A. hybridus in that county, where it has been 
found in wet meadows by the Trent, near Armitage, by the Rev. 
MiP; Riskes, Mr. Bagnall calls the Armitage plant var. pronus 
Mitten ; but Mr. Arthur Bennett has pointed out (Journ. Bot. 1899, 
p. 368 8) t that this name must be struck off our lists, Mr. Mitten 
having since informed him that the plant on which the name was 
based was an abnormal form occasioned by an insect which had in- 
fested the flowers. I should add, that j in its Leicestershire locality 
A. hybridus is accompanied by the assumed parent species, and that 
Prof. Hackel is aie for the name.—A. Bruce Jackson. 
Erynerum mum L.—In the notes and letters of Sir T. 
Browne (quoted ag ene note on Acorus on p. 28) is the following 
ane respecting this plant :—‘‘ Ringlestones, a small white & blac k 
a wagtayle, & seemes to bee some kind of marina, 
mon about Yarmouth sands. They la y their eggs in the sand 
& grees? about June, and as the eryngo diggers tell mee, [do] nott 
sett them flat, but upright like egges in salt.” (p. 23). The eryngo is 
